behavior of people in complex environments. While theories based on lower animals responding to relatively simple stimuli or stimuli complexes may have been valuable as a starting point for understanding human behavior, they are too limited to provide much in the way of prediction or understanding of an organism which is constantly abstracting his experience, uses language to classify new experiences and reclassify old experience, weighs probabilities, and is motivated primarily by goals that depend more on ideas than they do on reducing organic drives

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