Materials describing various applications of PCT, ordered in themes
Psychology & Mental Health
Perceptual Control Theory (PCT) Applied to Personality, Psychotherapy, and Psychopathology
David M. Goldstein (2011)
Themes
PCT materials related to psychology and mental health
Papers
Phil McNamee applies PCT to insight learning
`‘EUREKA!’ Published on PCTweb 20th June 2011
Biology & Neuroscience
William T. Powers critic of Optimal Control Theory
William T. Powers (2011)
Psychology & Mental Health
Control Theory & Experimental Psychology
Richard Marken (2010)
Psychology & Mental Health
Seeing oneself in one’s choices: Construal level and self-pertinence of electoral and consumer decisions
Antonio L. Freitas, Karen L. Langsam, Sheri Clark, Scott J. Moeller (2008)
Books
Living Control Systems III – The Fact of Control
Book + demonstration programs by William T. Powers (2008) Living Control Systems III continues Powers’ revolutionary approach to understanding living organisms as purposeful agents whose actions serve to control their environments. A unique feature of […]
Biology & Neuroscience
When Outgoing and Incoming Signals Meet:
New Insights from the Zona Incerta
Mathew E. Diamond, and Ehud Ahissar Open Archive DOI:https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuron.2007.11.006 https://www.cell.com/neuron/fulltext/S0896-6273(07)00871-9?_returnURL=https%3A%2F%2Flinkinghub.elsevier.com%2Fretrieve%2Fpii%2FS0896627307008719%3Fshowall%3Dtrue
Education
Teacher Adoption of Technology: A Perceptual Control Theory Perspective
GARY A. CZIKO (2001) Teacher Adoption of Technology: A Perceptual Control Theory Perspective.
Other
Journal on Perceptual Control Theory Vol 1 No 1, 1999
Towards a control model of object recognition R.Young and J. Illingworth
Other
Journal on Perceptual Control Theory Vol 1 No 1, 1999
Control of a multi-legged robot based on hierarchical PCT Richard Kennaway
Biology & Neuroscience
Control Systems With a Priori Intentions Register Environmental Disturbances A Posteriori
Wayne A. Hershberger (1998)
Education
An Expanded Control Model for the Use of Instructional Feedback
Hancock Thomas E., Thurman Richard A., and Hubbard David C. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0361476X85710284
Bill Powers
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
Bill Powers
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. […]
Biology & Neuroscience
A Control System Approach to Cardiovascular Reactivity: Behavioral Models That Behave
Raymond Pavloski (1989) https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1469-8986.1989.tb01953.x
Economics & Marketing
An Integrated Control Theory Model of Work Motivation
Howard J. Klein Abstract A model that integrates several different motivational theories and previous control theory models is presented as a possible metatheory to focus future theoretical and empirical efforts. The proposed model is dynamic, […]
Biology & Neuroscience
BRAIN AND BEHAVIOR: HIERARCHY OF
FEEDBACK SYSTEMS AND CONTROL OF
INPUT
A. R. Cools
Education
A control systems conceptualization of the goal-setting and changing process
Michael A.Campion and Robert G. Lord https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/0030507382902215
Bill Powers
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
Psychology & Mental Health
Quantitative Analysis of Purposive Systems: Some Spadeworkat the Foundations of Scientific Psychology
William T. Powers (1978)