Education
What students are saying about PCT
Perceptual Control Theory is taught at the University of Manchester as a component of the Psychology degree. In a student group research project, we have analysed the facilitaors and obstacles to learning PCT – click here for […]
Books
Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief Approaches to a Science of Life. Word Pictures and Correlations versus Working Models
William T. Powers & Philip J. Runken Throughout this volume, Phil and Bill exchange candid assessments of the players, methods and dominant approaches in psychology and the social sciences, and the difficulties that go with […]
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