ABSTRACT
This chapter presents a primer in control theory for behavioral scientists. It looks at one way a program of research in human development might be constructed, using the tenets of control theory. What most "cyberneticians" do and write is perfectly compatible with traditional models of organisms, and hence is incompatible with the principles of control theory. The first step in launching a cybernetic revolution in psychology is to make sure that the fundamental phenomena of control are correctly understood in relationship to behavior. Controlling various aspects of experience is an activity that has engaged human beings throughout recorded history. The engineers who devised systems that could imitate human control behavior proved, by the expedient of building examples of their model that this model of human organization does in fact work. Among the infinity of programs that might run in the human eighth level of organization are hierarchically organized programs.
