“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
Papers
The Rubber Band Demo
Dag Forssell This script and the accompanying video are designed to introduce and demonstrate the basic concept of PCT. The article Perceptual Control: Management Insight for Problem Solving, in the book: Management and Leadership: Insight […]
Bill Powers
About Stimulus Response Theory and Perceptual Control Theory
A short post to the Control System Group network (CSGnet) on the difference between cataloging behaviors and modeling systems that use behaviors to control perceptions. […]
Books
Ways of Learning and Knowing: The Epistemology of Education
Hugh G. Petrie “For most of his career, Hugh was way ahead of his time. His papers in this volume still are. The role of the evolutionary process of blind variation and selective retention in […]