Quantitative analysis of purposive systems: Some spadework at the foundations of scientific psychology

Argues that the revolution in psychology that cybernetics at one time seemed to promise has been delayed by 4 blunders: (a) dismissal of control theory as a mere machine analogy, (b) failure to describe control phenomena from the behaving system's point of view, (c) applying the general control...

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Veröffentlicht in:	Psychological review 1978-09, Vol.85 (5), p.417-435
1. Verfasser:	Powers, William T
Format:	Artikel
Sprache:	eng
Schlagworte:	Cybernetics Human Mathematical Modeling Psychology Systems
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