materials explaining pct directly
A continuation of PCT in 11 Steps, this is an overview of how control systems may come into being, change, cause internal conflict, and ways to resolve internal conflict. […]
From Reorganization to Evolution and Back
The concept of reorganization as such is irrefutable, but how can it work? In this essay and final comments, Bill Powers touches on the source and evolution of his thinking over the years. […]
Every child wonders, sooner or later, how it is that simply wanting one’s hands, arms, legs, body, head, or eyes to move suffices to create the wanted result…. — So begins this lovely essay and overview of the fundamental issues that cry out for answers. […]
The BYTE articles are a book unto themselves – a four-part introduction to PCT and modeling. […]
The Road Not Taken to a scientific psychology. […]
Letter to Philip J. Runkel, November 8, 1985 […]
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 […]
Comparing behaviorism, cognitive psych and PCT.
Misapprehensions and misstatements. […]
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 […]
An effective introductory summary of what PCT is all about, by Bill Powers […]
Elements of the control loop have been labeled slightly different by different people at different times and for different purposes, whether for a very plain explanation or for more mathematical treatment of the physical functions. […]
Control is a process of acting on the world we perceive to make it the way we want it to be, and to keep it that way. Examples of control: standing upright; walking; steering a car; scrambling eggs; scratching an itch; knitting socks; singing a tune. Extruding a pseudopod to absorb a nanospeck of food (all organisms control, not only human beings). The smallest organisms control by biochemical means, bigger ones by means of a nervous system. […]
Perceptual Control Theory (PCT), a scientific theory developed by William T. Powers (1973) posits that behavior is the control of perception. […]
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 […]
Assembled by Sarah Alsawy & Warren Mansell (August 2012) Historical and Philosophical Context lntegrative & Transdiagnostic Theoretical articles PCT, Core Processes, Goal Conflict and Mental Health – Research Studies Method of Levels – lntroductory articles […]
William T. Powers, Bruce Abbott, Timothy A. Carey, David M. Goldstein, Warren Mansell, Richard S. Marken, Bruce Nevin, Richard Robertson, & Martin Taylor (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 […]
David M. Goldstein, John White, & William T. Powers (Dec 2011)
Word Pictures and Correlations versus Working Models Dag Forssell (2011)
An introduction to Perceptual Control Theory, contrasting it with basic ideas in contemporary science of psychology. […]
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Cloak, 2008
est·schriftPronunciation: ‘fes(t)-“shrift Etymology: German, from Fest celebration + Schrift writingDate: 1898: a volume of writings by different authors presented as a tribute or memorial, especially to a scholar Introduction The William T. Powers Festschrift is […]
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