Web Page Contents:

• Citation
• Keywords
• Table of Contents
• Foreword
• Reviews

Citation:

Combs, Arthur W. and Snygg, Donald

Individual Behavior, A Perceptual Approach to Behavior,
1959, New York: Harper & Roe Publishers

• Ref: Library of Congress

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• Gestalt
• Objective System
• Phenomenological Psychology
• Prediction

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Table of Contents:

Foreword

Part I. The Perceptual Frame of Reference

1. The Challenge to Psychology
2. The Perceptual View of Behavior
3. What Do People Need?
4. The Physical Organism - Vehicle of Perception
5. Time and Opportunity Affect Perception
6. Goals, Values, and Techniques
7. Development of the Phenomenal Self
8. The Effect of Self on Perceiving
9. The Availability of Perceptions in the Field
10. Learning, Forgetting, and Problem Solving
11. The Nature of Capacities, Emotion, and Feeling
12. The Adequate Personality
13. The Inadequate Personality: The Dynamics of Failure

Part II. The Perceptual Approach Applied

14. Some General Implications for Human Relations
15. The Individual and His Society
16. How People Can Help Themselves
17. The Goals and Purposes of Education
18. The Teaching Relationship
19. The Personal Approach to Treatment
20. The Exploration of Meaning

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Reviews:

• "Sometimes, a theory fails to gain the attention it deserves because it is too simple, too clear, too practical. ..." C. George Boeree's comments on Snygg & Combs
• pointer to C. George Boeree's comments

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