诱导/突变理论：一种关于人类个体认知的行为生态学方法。

Induction/catastrophe theory: a behavioral ecological approach to cognition in human individuals.

作者信息

Dockens W S

出版信息

Behav Sci. 1979 Mar;24(2):94-111. doi: 10.1002/bs.3830240204.

Abstract

Gibson's (1966) ecological formulation of perceptual processes as abstracted systems, the tenets and units of neobehaviorism as formulated within psychobiology and the experimental analysis of behavior, and the topological approaches of mathematical biology as formulated by Rashevsky (1951, 1960) and Thom (1975) are the elemental concepts that form the basis of the theory presented in this paper. A cognitive or decision process of individual human beings--living systems at the organism level--emerges as a one-step, match-contrast, serial pattern embedded as a triplet of Gibson frames in five-dimensional butterfly catastrophe. Some of the experimental, clinical and philosophical implications of a "catastrophic" formulation of induction are discussed.

摘要

吉布森（1966 年）将知觉过程生态式地表述为抽象系统，新行为主义在心理生物学及行为实验分析中所阐述的原则和单元，以及拉舍夫斯基（1951 年、1960 年）和托姆（1975 年）所阐述的数学生物学拓扑方法，是构成本文所提理论基础的基本概念。个体人类（有机体层面的生命系统）的认知或决策过程，呈现为一种一步式、匹配对比的序列模式，作为吉布森框架三元组嵌入五维蝴蝶突变之中。本文还讨论了归纳的“突变”表述所具有的一些实验、临床及哲学意义。