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Plans and the Structure of Behavior Paperback – November 6, 2013

by GEORGE A. MILLER (Author), EUGENE GALANTER (Author), KARL H. PRIBRAM (Author)
4.4 4.4 out of 5 stars 14 ratings
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2013 Reprint of 1960 Edition. Full facsimile of the original edition, not reproduced with Optical Recognition Software. By 1960, psychology had come to be dominated by behaviorism and learning theory, which emphasized the observable stimulus and response components of human and animal behavior while ignoring the cognitive processes that mediate the relationship between the stimulus and response. The cognitive phenomena occurring within the "black box" between stimulus and response were of little interest to behaviorists, as their mathematical models worked without them. In 1960, the book "Plans and the Structure of Behavior," authored by George A. Miller, Eugene Galanter, and Karl H. Pribram, was published. In this volume, Miller and his colleagues sought to unify the behaviorists' learning theory with a cognitive model of learned behavior. Whereas the behaviorists suggested that a simple reflex arc underlies the acquisition of the stimulus-response relationship, Miller and his colleagues proposed that "some mediating organization of experience is necessary" somewhere between the stimulus and response, in effect a cognitive process which must include monitoring devices that control the acquisition of the stimulus-response relationship. They named this fundamental unit of behavior the T.O.T.E. for "Test - Operate - Test - Exit".
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    November 6, 2013
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    6 x 0.59 x 9 inches
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    1614275203
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    978-1614275206
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  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Martino Fine Books (November 6, 2013)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Paperback ‏ : ‎ 236 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1614275203
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1614275206
  • Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 2.31 pounds
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 6 x 0.59 x 9 inches
  • Customer Reviews:
    4.4 4.4 out of 5 stars 14 ratings

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Wilber Jones
5.0 out of 5 stars Wonderful that this classic is available so cheaply for Kindle
Reviewed in the United States on July 30, 2023
A great book. Historically important but also has valuable insights for today.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Five Stars
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John E. Hunt
5.0 out of 5 stars Book helped focus my life
Reviewed in the United States on August 3, 2011
I read this book in college - think I found it in the Whole Earth Catalog, which is going back a long way. It really helped focusing down into detailed actions and results - which wasn't as popular a topic then as it is now. Now, for example, the Getting Things Done methodology, from David Allen, for example, keys on actions and results.
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5.0 out of 5 stars A building stone for Cognitive Science and for NLP
Reviewed in the United States on July 2, 2001
As you will be able to read in the new Foreword by Donald Broadbent of the University of Oxford, this book has had a major impact on psychology and helped achieve the switch to cognitive psychology. This book triggered much of the research that lead to Ulric Neisser's book "Cognitive Psychology". The five stars I gave are related to the importance of this book - when reading this book in 2001, without taking this background into account, I would still rate it 4 stars.
This book argues that our behavior is guided by our plans. People move from sub-goal to sub-goal until their purposes are achieved. A basic concept to explain that is the feedback loop which comes from engineering and is know as the TOTE model inside the NLP community. When NLPers try to model a person's strategy (e.g. for taking a decision), they are in fact looking for the basic building blocks of the TOTE. This books contains a chapter on "Plans for Speaking", showing the link between Miller and Chomsky, another father of modern cogintive science (and NLP).
Of course, if you just want to grasp the basic concept, there is no need to read this book given that many books that are linked to practical applications of cogitive science (such as NLP) will include the model. For instance, the first part of the third chapter of my book "7 Steps on Emotional Intelligence" is built around on the TOTE model.
I consider this book a "must" for any scolar of cognitive science in general and of NLP in particular that wants some background on their domain.
Patrick E.C. Merlevede, MSc -- co-author of "7 Steps to Emotional Intelligence"
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Kajendren K.
1.0 out of 5 stars I paid for a whole book!
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on November 24, 2020
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Everything was fine until I got to page 56 and realised that a whole chunk of the book is missing.
So far despite all the chapters and pages showing in the front index I am aware I'm missing at least pages 57 to 74.
To complicate matters thinking everything was fine I have written in the book making notes - can the supplier please refund me or better still give me what I paid for please i.e. the whole book not just an incomplete mess!!!!
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Kajendren K.
1.0 out of 5 stars I paid for a whole book!
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on November 24, 2020
Everything was fine until I got to page 56 and realised that a whole chunk of the book is missing.
So far despite all the chapters and pages showing in the front index I am aware I'm missing at least pages 57 to 74.
To complicate matters thinking everything was fine I have written in the book making notes - can the supplier please refund me or better still give me what I paid for please i.e. the whole book not just an incomplete mess!!!!
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