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| Orienting Ourselves To The A-B-C Model | |
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| A Personal Introduction | |
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| A Preview Example of the A-B-C Model | |
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| Analysis and Prescription for Change | |
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| Scope of the Book | |
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| Orientation of the Model | |
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| Organization of the Book | |
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| Operant Behavior | |
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| Orienting Ourselves | |
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| Why Start with Operant Behavior? Operant Behavior Defined | |
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| Covert Operants | |
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| Learning Operants: Directly and Indirectly | |
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| Behavior Strength | |
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| Problem Operants: Behavior of Real Concern | |
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| Chapter Summary | |
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| Desirable Consequences: What We Hope, Expect, And Create | |
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| Orienting Ourselves | |
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| Contingencies | |
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| The Contingency as Covert Behavior | |
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| Categories of Consequences | |
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| Desirable Consequences | |
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| Positive Reinforcement | |
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| Negative Reinforcement | |
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| Chapter Summary | |
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| Undesirable Consequences: Contingencies We Dislike | |
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| Orienting Ourselves | |
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| Punishment | |
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| Extinction | |
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| Schedules of Reinforcement | |
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| Noncontingent Consequences and Superstitious Behavior | |
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| Chapter Summary | |
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| Antecedents: Our External Environment | |
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| Orienting Ourselves | |
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| Antecedent Stimuli as Setting Events | |
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| Stimulus Control | |
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| Stimulus Discrimination: Reading Your Antecedent Traffic Lights | |
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| Antecedents: Green Lights | |
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| Antecedents: Red Lights | |
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| Stimulus Discrimination: The Process | |
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| Antecedent Green Lights: Characteristics and Functions | |
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| Stimulus Generalization | |
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| Concepts: Discriminating within Generalizations | |
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| Chapter Summary | |
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| Respondents: Behavior Of Our Body | |
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| Orienting Ourselves | |
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| Our Mind/Body System | |
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| Change as a Stressor | |
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| Anxiety | |
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| Coping and Adaptation: An Example | |
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| G.A.S.: Our General Adaptation System | |
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| Alarm | |
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| Resistance | |
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| Exhaustion | |
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| Chapter Summary | |
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| Covert Behavior: Introducing The A-B-C's Of Our Mind | |
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| Orienting Ourselves | |
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| Our Covert Operants | |
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| The Antecedent-Covert Connection | |
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| Creating Our Own Covert Behavior | |
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| Reality: The A-B-C's of Our Assumptive World | |
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| Reality from Consensual Validation | |
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| Translating Our A-B-C's into a-b-c's | |
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| Levels of Consciousness | |
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| Automatic Pilot of Our Brain | |
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| Chapter Summary | |
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| Covert Structures And Processes | |
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| Orienting Ourselves | |
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| Hemispheric Specialization | |
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| Left-Brain Functioning | |
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| Right-Brain Functioning | |
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| Hemispheric Integration | |
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| Developmental Schemata of Covert Processes | |
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| Assimilation, Accommodation, and Equalization of Schemata | |
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| Schemata: Our Covert Action Plans | |
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| Equilibrium and the Development of Self | |
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| Schemata as Covert a-b-c's: Developmental Factors.Chapter Summary | |
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| Our Covert A-B-C's: What We Think About | |
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| Orienting Ourselves | |
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| Our A-B-C's as a System | |
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| Cybernetic Regulation of Our A-B-C System | |
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| Change and Our Dynamic A-B-C System | |
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| The Power of Goals and Our Desired a-b-c's | |
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| Feedback and Control | |
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| Memory: Our Storage and Retrieval of Covert a-b-c's | |
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| Attributions: Our Explanations for Past and Present a-b-c's | |
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| Expectations: Predictions for Future a-b-c's | |
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| From Attributions to Expectations: A Painful Example | |
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| Chapter Summary | |
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| Personalizing Our A-B-C's: The A-B-C's Of The Self | |
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| Orienting Ourselves | |
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| The Concept of Self | |
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| The Stability of the Self | |
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| Our Many Selves | |
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| Our Natural Tendencies for Self-Development | |
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| Protection and Enhancement of Our Covert Experience | |
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| Cognitive Dissonance: The Search for Compatible Parts | |
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| Self-Valuing: Judgments We Make about Self | |
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| The Power of Belief | |
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| The Placebo Effect | |
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| Attitudes: The Action of Beliefs | |
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| Self-Esteem and Our Valuing of Self | |
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| Intrinsic Consequences | |
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| Intrinsic Positive Reinforcement | |
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| Chapter Summary | |
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| Our Judgments Of Self | |
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| Orienting Ourselves | |
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| Judgments from Others | |
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| Our Covert Valuing System | |
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| Choosing Our Level of Acceptability | |
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| The Subjective Nature of Our C.V.S | |
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| The Motivational Effects of Our C.V.S | |
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| Intrinsic Punishment | |
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| Intrinsic Extinction | |
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| Depression as Covert Intrinsic Extinction | |
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| Intrinsic Extinction and Our Level of Acceptability | |
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| Optimism, Pessimism, and the Orientation of Our C.V.S | |
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| Perfectionism and Our Level of Acceptability | |
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| Chapter Summary | |
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| Our Covert Experience Of Emotion | |
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| Orienting Ourselves | |
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| Emotional Memory and the Biology of Temperament | |
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| Emotion: An Integrative Covert Experience | |
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| The Physiology of Emotion: Feeling | |