Purposeful Behavior as the Control of Perception
Implications for Educational Research
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 9733676 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Gary A Cziko (University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, corresponding author), Gary Cziko (University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign) |
| Year | 1992 |
| Volume | 21 |
| Issue | 9 |
| Pages | 10-27 |
| Publication date | 1992-12-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Educational Researcher (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0013-189X • E-ISSN: 1935-102X |
| Publisher | American Educational Research Association (AERA) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.3102/0013189x021009010 |
| OpenAlex | W2099304772 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 20 |
| References cited | 38 |
This article continues the discussion begun in my 1989 Educational Researcher essay on the problems posed by the unpredictability and indeterminism of human behavior for educational research and responds to criticisms of these arguments offered by Lehrer, Serlin, and Amundson (1990). In the course of this discussion, a theory of purposeful behavior known as perceptual control theory is presented which provides an explicit, working model of how individuals are able to produce repeatable outcomes via variable means. It is argued that the traditional "scientific" method of educational research, which attempts to find relationships between "independent" and "dependent" variables over groups of individuals, is in principle incapable of providing valid explanations of the how and why of purposeful human behavior
Cognitive psychology · Control (management · Determinism · Education theory · Educational research · Educational science · Epistemology · Higher education · Indeterminism · Mathematics education · Pedagogy · Perception · Sociology · Variable (mathematics · Academic and Historical Perspectives in Psychology · Complex Systems and Decision Making · Computer Science · Evaluation and Performance Assessment · Law · Psychology · School Choice and Performance · Social Psychology
Perceptual Control and Social Power
Schooling and Learning in U.S.-Mexican Families
English Language Learner Boys and Girls Reading and Math Achievement as a Function of Early-Exit and Late-Exit Bilingual Programs
Virtual tree, real impact
How Will Bilingual/ESL Programs in Literacy Change in the Next Millennium
Three Children, Two Languages, and Strategic Reading
Language minority achievement, family inequality, and the impact of bilingual education
Bilingualism and socioemotional well-being
Multilingual education reforms in Georgia in the post-Soviet period
The Crosslinguistic Role of Cognitive Academic Language Proficiency on Reading Growth in Spanish and English
Class Placement of Elementary School Emerging Bilingual Students
Un Estudio de Evaluación Educativa usando Manipulativos en el Aprendizaje de las Matemáticas con Estudiantes Hispanos Adquiriendo Inglés Académico como Segundo Lengua
Does Research Matter? An Analysis of Media Opinion on Bilingual Education, 1984–1994
Understanding and Promoting the Reading Comprehension of Bilingual Students
The Sociolinguistic Environment of a Bilingual School
A Pedagogical Model for Transitional English Bilingual Classrooms
The Role of Previous Educational Learning Experiences on Current Academic Performance and Second Language Proficiency of Intermediate School Limited English Proficient Students
Inside Transitional Bilingual Classrooms
Perceptual Control Theory
On the Threats That Do Not Face Educational Research
The Philosophy of Karl Popper
The principles of psychology.
Conjectures and Refutations
The reflex arc concept in psychology.
Falsification and the Methodology of Scientific Research Programmes
The Logic of Scientific Discovery
The Methodology of Scientific Research Programmes
Simulating Individual and Collective Action in Temporary Gatherings
Knowledge or Certainty? A Reply to Cziko
The behavioral development of free-living chimpanzee babies and infants
The Social Sciences
In Defense of Positivist Research Paradigms
Unpredictability and Indeterminism in Human Behavior
On the Threats That Do Not Face Educational Research
Individual Differences and Instructional Theory
Naturalistic Misunderstanding of the Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle
Experimental Design
Mirror, Mirror
How are we doing in soft psychology
American Educational Research Journal, 1964-1968
Down with the Linear Model
Blind variation and selective retentions in creative thought as in other knowledge processes
The Myth of the Madding Crowd
Behavior
Beyond the two disciplines of scientific psychology
The Giffen Effect
Control Theory and Statistical Generalizations
Invitation to the Dance
Clinical Applications of Control Theory
Developmental Transitions as Successive Reorganizations of a Control Hierarchy
| Unique citing works | 20 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,59 |
| Citation span | 1992 - 2022 (31) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 19 |