Plans and the structure of behavior.
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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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Active Inference is closer to the cybernetic view of purposive regulation than to standard associative theories.
“In this respect, Active Inference is closer to the cybernetic view of purposive regulation (Miller et al., 1960, Seth, 2014) than to standard associative theories.”
From Active Inference, homeostatic regulation and adaptive behavioural control (2015) · cites this paper as Miller et al., 1960
Expected precision or confidence about preferred outcomes reports on the progress towards the goal, and precision can be updated during goal-directed action rather than just mediating learning by reporting reward prediction errors.
“The expected precision or confidence about preferred outcomes reports on the progress towards the goal – like spatial proximity or sub-goals (Lepora and Pezzulo, 2015, Maisto et al., 2015) – and in accordance with early cybernetic models of purposive action such as the Test-Operate-Test-Exit (TOTE) model (Miller et al., 1960) precision can be updated (in a Bayes optimal fashion) during goal-direct”
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- Authors
- Miller, G. A., Galanter, E., & Pribram, K. H.
- Affiliations
- Princeton University (US)
- University of Pennsylvania (US)
- Stanford University (US)
- Venue
- Henry Holt and Company eBooks
- Publisher
- Henry Holt and Co
- Published
- 1960
- OpenAlex
- W2023722569
- Cited by
- 4,630
- References
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- FWCI
- 12.42
- Type
- book
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Locations
- Henry Holt and Company eBooks (publishedVersion)
- MPG.PuRe (Max Planck Society) (submittedVersion)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Psychology › General Psychology › Academic and Historical Perspectives in Psychology
- Social Sciences › Arts and Humanities › History and Philosophy of Science › Philosophy and History of Science
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Experimental and Cognitive Psychology › Philosophy and Theoretical Science
- Keywords
- behavior analysis, structure of behavior, scientific analysis
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