Charles R. Legg
- Published in print:
- 1994
- Published Online:
- March 2012
- ISBN:
- 9780198547877
- eISBN:
- 9780191724275
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198547877.003.0001
- Subject:
- Neuroscience, Behavioral Neuroscience
This chapter discusses the psychological concept of appetite. It explores some of the ways in which scientists and lay people use the term appetite and reviews how psychologists and psychobiologists ...
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This chapter discusses the psychological concept of appetite. It explores some of the ways in which scientists and lay people use the term appetite and reviews how psychologists and psychobiologists have approached the topic of motivation to determine whether appetite remains a useful scientific concept. It analyses psychobiological approaches to motivated behaviour and discusses the current situation concerning the relation between appetite and behaviour. The findings suggest that appetite remains a useful concept in contemporary psychology because appetite concepts are necessary to make sense of the experimental literature on motivation and because it act as a fruitful heuristic device in guiding investigations of the processes involved in motivated behaviour.Less
This chapter discusses the psychological concept of appetite. It explores some of the ways in which scientists and lay people use the term appetite and reviews how psychologists and psychobiologists have approached the topic of motivation to determine whether appetite remains a useful scientific concept. It analyses psychobiological approaches to motivated behaviour and discusses the current situation concerning the relation between appetite and behaviour. The findings suggest that appetite remains a useful concept in contemporary psychology because appetite concepts are necessary to make sense of the experimental literature on motivation and because it act as a fruitful heuristic device in guiding investigations of the processes involved in motivated behaviour.
Azadeh Chalabi
- Published in print:
- 2018
- Published Online:
- September 2018
- ISBN:
- 9780198822844
- eISBN:
- 9780191861291
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/oso/9780198822844.003.0003
- Subject:
- Law, Public International Law
Part I, ‘Theoretical Perspectives’, which is structured in two chapters (Chapters 1 and 2), develops a new general theory of human rights planning including four sub-theories. The first sub-theory, ...
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Part I, ‘Theoretical Perspectives’, which is structured in two chapters (Chapters 1 and 2), develops a new general theory of human rights planning including four sub-theories. The first sub-theory, contextual theory, is presented in Chapter 1. Chapter 2 is dedicated to the other three sub-theories. The first two sections propose the substantive and procedural sub-theories of human rights planning. Whereas the substantive theory of human rights planning provides the knowledge base to inform the content of planning, procedural sub-theory offers procedural principles for the formation, implementation, and assessment of human rights planning. The last section of Chapter 2 builds up a new analytical sub-theory of human rights planning through positive critique of the three major theories of rights, namely the interest theory, the need-based approach, and the capability approach. This analytical theory performs an heuristic role for human rights planning.Less
Part I, ‘Theoretical Perspectives’, which is structured in two chapters (Chapters 1 and 2), develops a new general theory of human rights planning including four sub-theories. The first sub-theory, contextual theory, is presented in Chapter 1. Chapter 2 is dedicated to the other three sub-theories. The first two sections propose the substantive and procedural sub-theories of human rights planning. Whereas the substantive theory of human rights planning provides the knowledge base to inform the content of planning, procedural sub-theory offers procedural principles for the formation, implementation, and assessment of human rights planning. The last section of Chapter 2 builds up a new analytical sub-theory of human rights planning through positive critique of the three major theories of rights, namely the interest theory, the need-based approach, and the capability approach. This analytical theory performs an heuristic role for human rights planning.
Timothy Rice
- Published in print:
- 2017
- Published Online:
- April 2017
- ISBN:
- 9780190616885
- eISBN:
- 9780190696979
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780190616885.003.0002
- Subject:
- Music, Ethnomusicology, World Music
This chapter proposes a model of the research foci of ethnomusicologists in the 1980s and model for the formative processes at work in music cultures. The simple three-part model indicates that music ...
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This chapter proposes a model of the research foci of ethnomusicologists in the 1980s and model for the formative processes at work in music cultures. The simple three-part model indicates that music is historically constructed, socially maintained, and individually created and experienced. The model responds to and extends the thinking of Alan Merriam. The chapter claims that simple models, rather than complex models such as one that Charles Seeger proposed, are easy to remember. It also claims that simple models are particularly useful as heuristic devices for planning and carrying out research in ethnomusicology.Less
This chapter proposes a model of the research foci of ethnomusicologists in the 1980s and model for the formative processes at work in music cultures. The simple three-part model indicates that music is historically constructed, socially maintained, and individually created and experienced. The model responds to and extends the thinking of Alan Merriam. The chapter claims that simple models, rather than complex models such as one that Charles Seeger proposed, are easy to remember. It also claims that simple models are particularly useful as heuristic devices for planning and carrying out research in ethnomusicology.
