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Complex behavior or higher mental process: Is there a paradigm shift?

Erwin M. Segal, +1 more
- 01 Jan 1972 - 
- Vol. 27, Iss: 1, pp 46-55
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This article is published in American Psychologist.The article was published on 1972-01-01. It has received 97 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Mental process & Paradigm shift.

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What’s Wrong with Empowerment

TL;DR: The authors criticizes two assumptions and values underlying the concept of empowerment: individualism, leading potentially to unmitigated competition and conflict among those who are empowered; and a preference for traditionally masculine concepts of mastery, power, and control over traditionally feminine concerns of communion and cooperation.
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The meaning of representation in animal memory

TL;DR: A metatheoretical view of representation is developed and Objections to the use of this concept in explanations of animal behavior, based on the claim that it is indeterminate and on behaviorist considerations of parsimony can be answered.
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Aspects of the Theory of Syntax

TL;DR: Methodological preliminaries of generative grammars as theories of linguistic competence; theory of performance; organization of a generative grammar; justification of grammar; descriptive and explanatory theories; evaluation procedures; linguistic theory and language learning.