Epistemology as General Systems Theory: An Approach to the Design of Complex Decision-Making Experiments

more fundamental level. Psychology in particular and the Behavioural Sciences in general are certainly no exception. One of the most irritating and troublesome of problems facing the Behavioural Sciences is that adequate definitions for the terms ’stimulus’ and ’response’ still do not exist. Their fields of definition continue to remain a continual battleground. There is confusion, disagreement, and even outright antagonism over the definitions of these basic terms. ’

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