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Control of Human Behavior, Mental Processes, and Consciousness Essays in Honor of the 60th Birthday of August Flammer Control of Human Behavior, Mental Processes, and Consciousness Essays in Honor of the 60th Birthday of August Flammer Edited by Walter J.Perrig University of Bern, Switzerland Alexander Grob University of Basel, Switzerland LAWRENCE ERLBAUM ASSOCIATES, PUBLISHERS Mahwah, New Jersey London This edition published in the Taylor & Francis e-Library, 2009. To purchase your own copy of this or any of Taylor & Francis or Routledge’s collection of thousands of eBooks please go to www.eBookstore.tandf.co.uk. Copyright © 2000 by Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, Inc. All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced in any form, by photostat, microfilm, retrieval system, or any other means, without prior written permission of the publisher. Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, Inc., Publishers 10 Industrial Avenue Mahwah, NJ 07430 Cover design by Kathryn Houghtaling Lacey Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Control of Human Behavior, Mental Processes, and Consiousness: essays in honor of the 60th birthday of August Flammer/edited by Walter J.Perrig and Alexander Grob. p. cm. Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 0-8058-2915-6 (hardcover: alk. paper) 1. Control (Psychology) 2. Self-control. 3. Perceptual control theory. 4. Human information processing. I. Flammer, August. II. Perrig, Walter J. III. Grob, Alexander, 1958–. BF611.C67 1998 153–dc21 98–32192 CIP ISBN 1-4106-0541-8 Master e-book ISBN Contents Preface viii Contributors x I BASIC ASPECTS AND VARIETIES OF CONTROL 1 Emotion, Cognition, and Control: Limits of Intentionality 3 Jochen Brandtstädter 2 Self-Efficacy: The Foundation of Agency 16 Albert Bandura 3The Orchestration of Selection, Optimization and Compensation: An Action- Theoretical Conceptualization of a Theory of Developmental Regulation 32 Alexandra M.Freund and Paul B.Baltes 4 Freedom of the Will—the Basis of Control 54 Mario von Cranach II CONSCIOUS, AUTOMATIC, AND CONTROLLED PROCESSES 5 Automatic and Controlled Uses of Memory in Social Judgments 67 Werner Wippich 6 Are Controlled Processes Conscious? 80 Margit E.Oswald and Volker Gadenne 7Intuition and Levels of Control: The Non-Rational Way of Reacting, Adapting, and Creating 94 Walter J.Perrig III PERCEPTION, KNOWLEDGE, MEMORY, AND LEARNING 8The Issue of Control in Sensory and Perceptual Processes: Attention Selects and Modulates the Visual Input 114 Rudolf Groner and Marina T.Groner 9 The Control of Knowledge Activation in Discourse Comprehension 125 Walter Kintsch 10 Working Memory and Attentional Control 134 Anik de Ribaupierre vi Contents 11 Problem-Oriented Learning: Facilitating the Use of Domain-Specific and Control Strategies through Modeling by an Expert 151 Heinz Mandl, Cornelia Gräsel and Frank Fischer 12 The Role of Cognitive Structure in the Development of Behavioral Control: A Dynamic Skills Approach 167 Thomas R.Bidell and Kurt W.Fischer 13 Metacognitive Control in Analogical Reasoning 186 Fredi P.Bücket IV EMOTION, MOTIVATION, AND ACTION 14 Emotional Expression: A Royal Road for the Study of Behavior Control 209 Klaus Scherer 15 Control Psychology under the Control of Questionnaires? The Sear ch for an Alternative Assessment Procedure 226 Meinrad Perrez and Peter Wilhelm 16 The Control of Unwanted States and Psychological Health: Consistency-Safeguards 241 Hansjörg Znoj and Klaus Grawe 17 Self-Regulation and Rumination: Negative Affect and Impaired Self-Accessibility 259 Julius Kuhl and Nicola Baumann 18The Concept of Control: A Key Concept in Understanding and Overcoming Barriers to Responsible Environmental Behavior 281 Ursula Peter and Ruth Kaufmann-Hayoz V DEVELOPMENTAL PERSPECTIVES: STABILITY AND CHANGE 19 Dynamics of Perceived Control Across Adolescence and Adulthood 299 Alexander Grob 20The Development of a Depressive Personality Orientation: The Role of the Individual 318 Françoise D.Alsaker 21Control of Action and Interaction: Perceiving and Producing Effects in Action and Interaction with Objects 333 Lieselotte van Leeuwen, Franz Kaufmann, and Daniel Walther 22The Development of Internal versus External Control Beliefs in Developmentally Relevant Contexts of Children’s and Adolescents’ Lifeworlds 348 Wolfgang Edelstein, Matthias Grundmann and Alexandra Mies 23School-Related Self-Efficacy Among Adolescents from Former East and West Germany: Age Trends, Association with School Performance, and Family Correlates 360 Rainer K.Silbereisen and Margit Wiesner Contents vii 24 Control Beliefs, Health, and Well-Being In Elderly 378 Pasqualina Perrig-Chiello VI SOCIALIZATION, SYSTEMS, AND CULTURE 25 Do I Choose? Attribution and Control in Students of a Technical School 392 Claude Albert Kaiser, Anne-Nelly Perret-Clermont and Jean-François Perret 26 Social Influence and Control Beliefs in Identity Threatening Contexts 407 Juan M.Falomir, Gabriel Mugny, Alain Quiamzade, and Fabrizio Butera 27 Adolescents as Agents in the Promotion of their Positive Development: The Role of Youth Actions in Effective Programs 420 Richard M.Lerner and Catherine E.Barton 28 Social Control, Perceived Control, and the Family 439 Werner Wicki 29 The Cultural Scripts of Control and Individualization: Consequences for Growing Up During Adolescence in Modern Societies 449 Helmut Fend 30Domain-Specific Control Beliefs in Literacy and Numeracy versus Actual Performance among Adults 466 Francois Stoll and Philipp Notter 31Using Employee Opinion Surveys to Identify Control Mechanisms in Organisations 480 Peter M.Hart and Alexander J.Wearing 32 Self-Efficacy and the School System 499 Fritz Oser 33 Control at Work: Issues of Specificity, Generality, and Legitimacy 512 Norbert Semmer Author Index 531 Subject Index 563 Preface “I am not such a productive scientist, that I would deserve such an honor.” This sentence paraphrases August Flammer’s reaction when he learned about this volume and the authors, friends, colleagues and scientists from around the world who contributed to it in honor of his 60th birthday. We know there are many criteria that may make someone outstanding enough to deserve such an honor. However, there was never a doubt as to whether to proceed with this project. In many respects, Flammer scored highly throughout his career. But it is his productivity in different domains of psychology that makes him outstanding. Born in 1938, Flammer began his professional career as a teacher at different levels of elementary and high school. He then studied psychology at the University of Fribourg, Switzerland, and in 1970, earned his doctorate in experimental psychology, statistics, and philosophy. His postdoctorate years (1972–1974) brought him first to the Institute for Mathematical Studies in the Social Sciences at Stanford University. There, he worked as a research fellow with a fellowship from the Swiss National Science Foundation. Afterwards, he stayed on as an honorary fellow at the Wisconsin Research and Development Center for Cognitive Learning at the University of Wisconsin, Madison. In 1975, in Switzerland, he was elected professor for experimental and educational psychology at the University of Fribourg. Since 1983, he has been full professor of developmental psychology at the University of Bern (Switzerland). In both Universities he was a dean. Flammer was a visiting professor at the Universities of Melbourne (Australia), Basel (Switzerland), Zurich (Switzerland), Bergen (Norway), and at the Max-Planck Institute for Human Development in Berlin (Germany). He is a member of various scientific organizations and committees and associate editor of several national and international journals. He served several times in the role of organizer for scientific conventions, among them the world congress of ISSBD, 1998, in Bern. Flammer is—and always was—a busy promoter of scientific psychology. As a 12-year member of the Research Council of the Swiss National Science Foundation, he was responsible for the evaluation of hundreds of grant proposals in the social science and humanities section. At this same institution, his concern for the junior research generation was apparent in his awarding of fellowships to promising candidates. Furthermore, approximately 30 students earned their doctorate degrees under his strict, yet supportive, supervision. Flammer’s bibliography contains more than 200 scientific contributions. The topics reflect chronologically his professional path, which is astonishing in its extraordinary breadth. It begins with educational psychology, individual differences in learning, aptitude-treatment-interaction, test validation, and learning assessment; it also includes experimental work in cognitive psychology, text and discourse processing, and memory; and finally, developmental psychology and developmental tasks and control beliefs across childhood and adolescence. Flammer became an internationally respected scientist publishing laboratory experimental work and broad integrative work. He is a successful representative of the European tradition of a broad education. Based on Flammer’s extraordinary background, we felt proud to edit a volume in honor of his achievements. As his former students, we represent different generations that Preface ix shared Flammer’s earlier interest in experimental cognitive psychology, or his later research in developmental psychology. The publishing of Control of Human Behavior, Mental Processes, and Consciousness is justified by Flammer’s work and competence. The volume shares Flammer’s spirit of keeping broad related topics in mind, and in being precise in both rationale and method. The topic of control is taken from Flammer’s main research interests of the 1990s. We think the topic of control is central to the field of cognitive psychology, and is important enough to be evaluated and elaborated on from many different perspectives. This volume intends to cross the borders of narrow disciplines, and gives the reader a chance to reflect on the concept of control from a variety of perspectives. We embrace the contributions of friends and colleagues of August Flammer, who work in research areas that are close to Flammer’s, as well as contributions of leading scientists who are influential in the area of control. There is no doubt that the ideas and elaborations presented here are important and attractive from a theoretical and a practical perspective. Further evaluations and judgments are left to the reader. For us, what remains is the pleasant task of thanking all the authors who shared our commitment to a volume that would not only please the honored, but also be of broad interest to the entire scientific community. —Walter Perrig —Alexander Grob ACKNOWLEDGMENTS The editors thank the Johann Jacobs Foundation and the Swiss Academy of Humanities and Social Sciences for financial support of this project. Contributors Françoise D.Alsaker University of Bern, Switzerland Paul B.Baltes Max Planck Institute for Human Development, Berlin, Germany Albert Bandura Stanford University Nicola Baumann University of Osnabrück, Germany Catherine E.Barton Boston College, Chestnut Hill Thomas R.Bidell University of Colorado, Denver Jochen Brandtstädter University of Trier, Germany Fredi P.Büchel University of Geneva, Switzerland Fabrizio Butera University Pierre Mendés, Grenoble, France Mario von Cranach University of Bern, Switzerland Wolfgang Edelstein Max Planck Institute for Human Development, Berlin, Germany Juan M.Falomir University of Geneva, Switzerland Helmut Fend University of Zürich, Switzerland Frank Fischer University of Munich, Germany Kurt W.Fischer Harvard School of Education, Cambridge, MA Alexandra M.Freund Max Planck Institute for Human Development, Berlin, Germany Volker Gadenne Johannes-Kepler-University, Linz, Austria Cornelia Gräse l University of Munich, Germany Klaus Grawe University of Bern, Switzerland Alexander Grob University of Basel, Switzerland Marina T.Grone r University of Bern, Switzerland Rudolf Grone r University of Bern, Switzerland Matthias Grundmann Max Planck Institute for Human Development, Berlin, Germany Peter M.Har t University of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia Claude A.Kaise r University of Geneva, Switzerland Franz Kaufman n University of Bern, Switzerland Ruth Kaufmann-Hayo z University of Bern, Switzerland Walter Kintsc h University of Colorado, Boulder Julius Ku h l University of Osnabrück, Germany Lieselotte van Leeuw e n University of Bern, Switzerland Richard M.Lern e r Tufts University Heinz Man d l University of Munich, Germany Alexandra Mi e s Max Planck Institute for Human Development, Berlin, Germany Gabriel Mugn y University of Geneva, Switzerland Philipp Nott e r University of Zürich, Switzerland Fritz Os e r University of Fribourg, Switzerland Margit Oswa l d University of Bern, Switzerland Anne-Nelly Perret-Clermo n t University of Neuchâtel, Switzerland Jean-François Per r e t University of Fribourg, Switzerland
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