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Plans and the Structure of Behavior
Published in Hardcover by Adams Bannister Cox Pubs (1986)
Authors: George Armitage Miller, Eugene Galanter, and Karl H. Pribram
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A building stone for Cognitive Science and for NLP
As you will be able to read in the new Foreword by Donald Broadbent of the University of Oxford, this book has had a major impact on psychology and helped achieve the switch to cognitive psychology. This book triggered much of the research that lead to Ulric Neisser's book "Cognitive Psychology". The five stars I gave are related to the importance of this book - when reading this book in 2001, without taking this background into account, I would still rate it 4 stars.

This book argues that our behavior is guided by our plans. People move from sub-goal to sub-goal until their purposes are achieved. A basic concept to explain that is the feedback loop which comes from engineering and is know as the TOTE model inside the NLP community. When NLPers try to model a person's strategy (e.g. for taking a decision), they are in fact looking for the basic building blocks of the TOTE. This books contains a chapter on "Plans for Speaking", showing the link between Miller and Chomsky, another father of modern cogintive science (and NLP).

Of course, if you just want to grasp the basic concept, there is no need to read this book given that many books that are linked to practical applications of cogitive science (such as NLP) will include the model. For instance, the first part of the third chapter of my book "7 Steps on Emotional Intelligence" is built around on the TOTE model.

I consider this book a "must" for any scolar of cognitive science in general and of NLP in particular that wants some background on their domain.

Patrick E.C. Merlevede, MSc -- co-author of "7 Steps to Emotional Intelligence"


Advanced Programming Handbook (Kids and Computers)
Published in Hardcover by Perigee (1986)
Author: Eugene Galanter
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Elementary Programming for Kids in Basic (Kids and Computers)
Published in Hardcover by Perigee (1983)
Author: Eugene Galanter
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Kids and Computers: Advanced Programming Handbook
Published in Paperback by Perigee (1984)
Author: Eugene Galanter
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Kids and Computers: The Parent's Mircocomputer Handbook
Published in Paperback by Perigee (1983)
Author: Eugene Galanter
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Kids and Computers: The Parents Microcomputer Handbook
Published in Hardcover by Perigee (1983)
Author: Eugene Galanter
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Psych Tech Notes
Published in Paperback by Adams Bannister Cox Pubs (1988)
Author: Eugene Galanter
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Psych Tech Notes: Version 2.1
Published in Hardcover by Adams Bannister Cox Pubs (1994)
Author: Eugene Galanter
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