Bill Powers
The Tank that Filled Itself
The Road Not Taken to a scientific psychology. […]
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Bill Powers
What’s wrong with ‘Behavioral Science’?
Letter to Philip J. Runkel, November 8, 1985 […]
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Bill Powers on Perceptual Control Theory
About Perceptual Control Theory (PCT), some history, status, and what you will experience when studying PCT. Highlights from an introductory essay William T. (Bill) Powers wrote in May, 1980 […]
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The Dispute Over Control Theory
Comparing behaviorism, cognitive psych and PCT.
Misapprehensions and misstatements. […]
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An Introduction to Perceptual Control Theory— Standing at the Crossroads
William T. Powers Many people have some sense of what control is about, but very few understand clearly how control works and even fewer (including control engineers) understand clearly what a control systems controls: Not […]
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Ten Minutes – An Introduction to PCT
An effective introductory summary of what PCT is all about, by Bill Powers […]
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The Straits of W. T. Magellan: A Salute to W. T. Powers
Martin Taylor Note: This salute to William T. Powers, the creator of Perceptual Control Theory (PCT), was posted to the CSGNet discussion list by Martin Taylor on September 15, 2016 and is posted here with […]
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Perceptual Control Theory
A Model for Understanding the
Mechanisms and Phenomena of Control
William T. Powers, Bruce Abbott, Timothy A. Carey, David M. Goldstein, Warren Mansell, Richard S. Marken, Bruce Nevin, Richard Robertson, & Martin Taylor (2011)
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Discussion between Steven Hayes and Bill Powers (2011)
Hello, all — Attached is a nice article by Fred Nichols (http://www.nickols.us/ManageYOP.pdf) who is a management consultant and a long-time CSG (control system group) member. It has a bearing on the difference between ACT (Steve […]
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Perceptual Control Theory (PCT) Applied to
Personality, Psychotherapy,
and Psychopathology
David M. Goldstein, John White, & William T. Powers (Dec 2011)
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Perceptual Control Theory
A Model for Understanding the
Mechanisms and Phenomena of Control
An introduction to Perceptual Control Theory, contrasting it with basic ideas in contemporary science of psychology. […]
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An “Artificial Cerebellum” Adaptive Stabilization of a Control System
William T. Powers Proceedings of the 1st European Workshop on Perceptual Control TheoryGregynog, The University of Wales23rd – 27th June 1994
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Objections to PCT Answered – “The Devil´s Bibliography”
DEVIL’S .BIB Misunderstandings and distortions. See DISPUTE.PCT Unedited posts from archives of CSG-L (see INTROCSG.NET): This thread deals with myths, misunderstandings, and distortions offeedback, cybernetics and PCT. The term Devil’s Bibliography was suggested and stuck. […]
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Powers (1978) in Psychological Review – Evidence for PCT over Stimulus-Response approaches
“Quantitative Analysis of Purposive Systems: Some Spadework at the Foundations of Scientific Psychology“ William T. Powers Psychological Review, 1978, Vol. 85, No. 5, 417-435
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Behavior: The Control of Perception
William T. Powers Preface This book represents, I hope, a step on the path back to a concept of man as autonomous, and away from the concept of man as automaton. Yet in allowing my […]