Personality and motivational differences in persons with mental retardation
By: Sitzky, Harvey N.
Publisher: New Jersey Lawrence Erlbaum Associates 2001Description: xiii, 414 p.ISBN: 0805825703.Subject(s): INTELLECTUAL DISABILITY
| PERSONALITY | MOTIVATION | HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVES | SELF ADVOCACY | DECISION MAKING | ETIOLOGY | PSYCHOPATHOLOGY | THEORY | BIOLOGICAL ASPECTS | COGNITIVE PROCESSESSummary: This book is organized into two parts: Part I reviews the work of researchers who have investigated personality and motivational self-system processes. Part II presents theories of self-determination, theories of social intelligence and social decision making, the importance of biological factors influencing personality and motivational systems including psychopathological manifestations, the development of theories of information processing linking cognition and motivation and performance based on the work of European theorists and a new theory of motivation, Sensitivity Theory.
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| Book | IHC Library | 710 PER (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Available | W005146 |
This book is organized into two parts: Part I reviews the work of researchers who have investigated personality and motivational self-system processes. Part II presents theories of self-determination, theories of social intelligence and social decision making, the importance of biological factors influencing personality and motivational systems including psychopathological manifestations, the development of theories of information processing linking cognition and motivation and performance based on the work of European theorists and a new theory of motivation, Sensitivity Theory.
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