Gaining Control

How Human Behavior Evolved

AUTHOR(S) :
Robert Aunger
Valerie Curtis

TRANSLATED BY: Ayşegül Turan

LANGUAGE: Turkish

CATEGORY: Psychology
PAGES: 279
SIZE: 13,5 x 20 cm.
EDITION: 1. Baskı ,2016-07-20 00:00:00
HARDCOVER ISBN: 9786059389044
HARDCOVER PRICE: 70 TL

This book is the Turkish translation of Gaining Control: How Human Behavior Evolved published by Oxford University Press. From the backcover of the English original:

Gaining Control tells the story of how human behavioral capacities evolved from those of other animal species. Exploring what is known about the psychological capacities of other groups of animals, the authors reconstruct a fascinating history of our own mental evolution. 

In the book, the authors see mental evolution as a series of steps in which new mechanisms for controlling behavior develop in different species – starting with early representatives of this kingdom, and leading to a species – us – that can engage in a large number of different types of behavioral control. Key to their argument is the idea that each of these steps — from reflexes to instincts, drives, emotions, and cognitive planning – can be seen as a novel type of psychological adaptation in which information is ‘inherited’ by an animal from its own behavior through new forms of learning – a form of major evolutionary transition. Thus the mechanisms that result from these steps in increasingly complex behavioral control can also be seen as the fundamental building blocks of psychology. Such a perspective on behaviour has a number of implications for practitioners in fields ranging from experimental psychology to public health. 

Short, provocative, and insightful, this book will be of great interest and use to evolutionary psychologists and biologists, anthropologists and the scientific community as a whole.”

BENZER KİTAPLAR

This book is the Turkish translation of Into the Abyss: A Neuropsychiatrist’s Notes on Troubled Minds, originally published by Oneworld […]

AUTHOR(S) Anthony David, 75 TL

Into the Abyss
A neuropsychiatrist's notes on troubled minds

AUTHOR(S) Anthony David,

This book is the Turkish translation of Being Amoral: Psychopathy and Moral Incapacity, originally published by MIT Press. From the backcover […]

AUTHOR(S) Thomas Schramme, 36 TL

Being Amoral
Psychopathy and Moral Incapacity

AUTHOR(S) Thomas Schramme,

About 60 years ago, the pioneer of the attachment theory, John Bowlby, has made a revolution in psychology by discussing […]

AUTHOR(S) Melike Sayıl, Nebi Sümer, Sibel Kazak Berument, 18 TL

Maternal Care and Attachment in Infants

AUTHOR(S) Melike Sayıl, Nebi Sümer, Sibel Kazak Berument,

SEPET
0