Plans and the structure of behavior.

Abstract

Most psychologists take it for granted that a scientific account of the behavior of organisms must begin with the definition of fixed, recognizable, elementary units of behavior—something a psychologist can use as a biologist uses cells, or an astronomer uses stars, or a physicist uses atoms, and so on. Given a simple unit, complicated phenomena are then describable as lawful compounds. That is the essence of the highly successful strategy called “scientific analysis.”

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                                    George A. Miller, 
                                
                                    Eugene Galanter, 
                                
                                    Karl H. Pribram
                                
                            (1960). 
                            Plans and the structure of behavior.. 
                            Henry Holt and Co eBooks
                            
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                            https://doi.org/10.1037/10039-000

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DOI: 10.1037/10039-000