Human Behavior : A Cell to Society Approach

• Autore: Vaughn Michael G
• Pubblicazione: Somerset : , : John Wiley & Sons, Incorporated, , 2013; ©2014
• Edizione: 1st ed.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (410 pages)
• Disciplina: 150
• Soggetto topico: Human behavior; Human behavior -- Physiological aspects
• Soggetto genere / forma: Electronic books.
• Altri autori: DeLisiMatt MattoHolly C
• Nota di contenuto: Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Contents -- Preface -- Human Behavior and the Core Competencies (EPAS) -- About the Authors -- Chapter 1 Introducing the Cell to Society Framework -- Case Study: Malia's Different Abilities -- On the Importance of Transdisciplinary Approaches -- Change and Adaptation: Biological and Cultural Evolution -- Systems Thinking and Complexity -- Science and Scientific Methods -- Pseudoscience and the Human Condition -- Spotlight Topic: "Baloney Detection -- The Cell to Society Framework and the Life Course -- Major Developmental Milestones -- Major Theoretical Perspectives -- Expert's Corner: John Brekke -- Components of the Cell to Society Framework -- Genes and Behavior -- Stress and Adaptation -- Emotion -- Executive Functions -- Temperament -- Personality -- Cognition and Learning -- Social Exchange and Cooperation -- Social Networks and Psychosocial Relations -- Technology -- The Physical Environment -- Institutions -- Belief Systems and Ideology -- Summary -- Key Terms -- Chapter 2 Genes and Behavior -- Case Study: Cory -- Distal Context -- Principles of Human Evolution -- Heritability -- Spotlight Topic: Nature and Nurture Means Both -- Proximal Mechanisms -- A Molecular Biology Primer for the Social Work Practitioner -- Genetic Variation and Neural Substrates -- Genes and Behavior Over the Life Course -- Fetal Environment and Infancy -- Childhood -- Adolescence -- Adulthood -- Expert's Corner: Terrie E. Moffitt -- Summary -- Key Terms -- Chapter 3 Stress and Adaptation -- Case Study: Juan Carlos-Profile of Adaptation in Unpredictable and Uncertain Times -- Distal Context -- What Is Stress and What Does It Have to Do With Human Behavior? -- Principles of Human Evolution -- Spotlight Topic: Posttraumatic Stress Disorder -- Proximal Mechanisms -- Neural Substrates and Stress -- Endocrine System and Function. ; Stress, Inflammation, and Biomarkers -- Environmental Triggers -- Childhood Stress Caused by Structural Violence -- Spotlight Topic: How Environmental Stress Gets Under the Skin -- Stress and Adaptation Over the Life Course -- Fetal Environment and Infancy -- Early Childhood and Childhood -- Adolescence -- Adulthood -- Sex Differences -- Expert's Corner: Bruce S. McEwen, Rockefeller University -- Summary -- Key Terms -- Chapter 4 Emotion -- Spotlight Topic: Emotional Valence and Affect -- Case Study: Tamika -- Distal Context -- Reflection: Social Work Intern in the Emergency Room -- Proximal Mechanisms -- Prefrontal Cortex -- Limbic System -- Social Information Processing -- Spotlight Topic: Empathy -- Emotional Development and Psychosocial Relations Over the Life Course -- Fetal Environment and Infancy -- Early Childhood and Childhood -- Adolescence -- Adulthood -- Sex Differences -- Expert's Corner: Jeanne Tsai, Stanford University -- Summary -- Key Terms -- Chapter 5 Executive Functions -- Case Study: Corporal Wagner -- Distal Context -- Proximal Mechanisms -- Emotion, Rewards, and Relationships -- Spotlight Topic: ADHD -- Executive Functions and Psychosocial Relations Over the Life Course -- Fetal Environment and Infancy -- Early Childhood and Childhood -- Spotlight Topic: Psychotropic Drug Treatment -- Adolescence -- Adulthood -- Spotlight Topic: Improving Executive Functions -- Sex Differences -- Expert's Corner: Russell A. Barkley, Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, SUNY Upstate Medical University -- Summary -- Key Terms -- Chapter 6 Temperament -- Case Study: Gloria -- Distal Context -- What Is Temperament? -- Theories of Temperament -- Alexander Thomas and Stella Chess -- Jerome Kagan -- Mary Rothbart -- Robert Cloninger -- Arnold Buss and Robert Plomin -- Central Nervous System and Evolutionary Underpinnings. ; Spotlight Topic: The Criminology of the Amygdala -- Proximal Mechanisms -- Prefrontal Cortex and Executive Governance -- The Limbic System, the Amygdala, and Emotional Processing -- Neurological Deficits -- Attachment and Neural Function -- Disorders Related to Temperament -- Spotlight Topic: Psychopathy -- Temperament Over the Life Course -- Fetal Environment and Infancy -- Childhood -- Adolescence -- Adulthood -- Expert's Corner: Jerome Kagan -- Summary -- Key Terms -- Chapter 7 Personality -- Case Study: The Saldago Twins -- Distal Context -- What Is Personality? -- Central Nervous System and Evolutionary Underpinnings -- The Five Factor Model of Personality -- Proximal Mechanisms -- Neural Substrates -- Genetic Underpinnings -- Environmental Contexts -- Spotlight Topic: Personality and the Social Work Profession -- Personality Disorders -- Paranoid Personality Disorder -- Schizoid Personality Disorder -- Schizotypal Personality Disorder -- Antisocial Personality Disorder -- Borderline Personality Disorder -- Histrionic Personality Disorder -- Narcissistic Personality Disorder -- Avoidant Personality Disorder -- Dependent Personality Disorder -- Obsessive-Compulsive Personality Disorder -- Clients and Personality Functioning -- Spotlight Topic: Borderline Personality Disorders and Dialectical Behavior Therapy -- Personality Over the Life Course -- Fetal Environment and Infancy -- Early Childhood and Childhood -- Adolescence -- Adulthood -- Sex Differences -- Expert's Corner: Paul Costa -- Summary -- Key Terms -- Chapter 8 Cognition and Learning -- Distal Context -- Conscious and Unconscious Mind -- Case Study: Jack -- Intelligence -- Learning -- Learning Challenges -- Spotlight Topic: Tools of the Mind -- Motivation -- Self-Regulation and Cognitive Control -- Interpersonal Neurobiology -- Technological Advances to Understand the Mind. ; Real-Time fMRI -- Individualizing Treatment Sequencing -- Neural Profiles of Resiliency -- Social Process Influence on Brain-Behavior Change -- Expert's Corner: Frank Krueger -- Cognitive Development Across the Life Course -- Early Brain Maturation -- Childhood and Adolescence -- Cognitive Functioning and Decline in Adulthood -- Summary -- Key Terms -- Chapter 9 Social Exchange and Cooperation -- Case Study: Food Cooperatives -- Distal Context -- Evolution and Social Exchange -- Game Theory -- Prisoner's Dilemma -- Cooperation -- Government Shutdowns Due to Lack of Congressional Cooperation -- Spotlight Topic: The "Big Man'' Theory -- Utilitarianism and Social Exchange Theory -- Conflict Resolution for Personal Gain -- Homans's Elementary Forms of Social Behavior -- Emotion and Social Exchange -- Experiments Involving Social Exchange -- Reciprocity and Fairness -- Neuroscience of Social Exchange and Cooperation -- Power -- Altruism -- Restorative Justice: A Form of Altruism? -- Race and Altruism -- Self-Report Measures of Altruism -- Emotion Again -- Expert's Corner: Peter Corning -- Exchange and Cooperation Over the Life Course -- Fetal Environment and Infancy -- Childhood and Adolescence -- Adulthood -- Summary -- Key Terms -- Chapter 10 Social Networks and Psychosocial Relations -- Distal Context -- Going It Alone? -- Case Study 1: Tyler, Disconnected and Struggling -- Attachment: The Developing Self in the Context of Others -- Case Study 2: Joey, Marching Into the Middle Class -- Social Relationships Across the Life Course -- Early Childhood -- Adolescence -- Emerging Adulthood -- Middle Age -- Older Adulthood -- Social Networks: Peers, Family, and Community -- Peers: The Influence of Your Friend's Friends' Friends -- Expert's Corner: Nicholas A. Christakis, MD, PhD, MPH -- Family: The Network of First and Last Resort. ; Community Connections: From Hull House to Facebook -- Spotlight Topic: Harlem Children's Zone -- Current Innovations in Community Building -- Hierarchies and Power -- Summary -- Key Terms -- Chapter 11 Technology -- Distal Context -- Technology Systems Among Chimpanzees -- Case Study: Micro and Macro Interventions -- Technology and Society: Major Theoretical Frameworks -- Ecological-Evolutionary Typology -- Cultural Materialism -- Technological Determinism -- Technological Change -- Technology Inside the Home -- Spotlight Topic: The Automobile -- Technology and Its Distribution in a Society -- Power -- Gender, Race, and Computer Technology -- Cross-National Comparisons -- Expert's Corner: Nazli Choucri -- Computers and Information Technology -- Social Media -- Who Tweets, Blogs, and Uses Facebook? -- The Dark Side of Internet and Computer Use -- Integrating Technology Into Behavioral Interventions -- Technology Over the Life Course -- Fetal Environment and Infancy -- Early Childhood and Childhood -- Adolescence -- Adulthood -- Summary -- Key Terms -- Chapter 12 The Physical Environment -- Distal Context -- Geographic Origins of Inequalities -- Axis Orientations -- Case Study: Community Types -- Geography and Economics Intersect -- Diffusion of Religion Around the Globe -- Ecosystems Theory -- Steward's Cultural Ecology -- Climate -- Natural Disasters -- Urban Ecology -- Built Environment -- Rural Ecology -- Spotlight Topic: Sense of Place -- The Effect of Setting: Jails and Prisons -- Office Spaces and Productivity -- Tools for Spatial Analysis -- Case Study: Community Development and Youth Gangs -- Spatial Effects and Variation Over the Life Course -- Fetal Environment and Infancy -- Early Childhood and Childhood -- Adolescence -- Adulthood and Older Adulthood -- Expert's Corner: Claudia Coulton, Case Western Reserve University -- Summary. ; Key Terms.
• Sommario/riassunto: MICHAEL G. VAUGHN, PhD, is a Professor in the School of Social Work at Saint Louis University. MATT DeLISI, PhD, is a Professor in the Department of Sociology at Iowa State University. HOLLY C. MATTO, PhD, is an Associate Professor in the Department of Social Work at George Mason University.
• Titolo autorizzato: Human Behavior
• ISBN: 9781118418963; 9781118121542
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910810311503321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II