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HomePCTBill PowersPowers (1978) in Psychological Review – Evidence for PCT over Stimulus-Response approaches

Powers (1978) in Psychological Review – Evidence for PCT over Stimulus-Response approaches

December 24, 1978 WM Bill Powers, Papers, Psychology & Mental Health

“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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