225 | Michael Tomasello on The Social Origins of Cognition and Agency
Sean Carroll's Mindscape: Science, Society, Philosophy, Culture, Arts, and Ideas
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The concept of agency and individual decision-making
The concept of agency involves an organism making decisions to meet its goals, involving the gathering of information and decision-making. This concept is essential in psychology as it emphasizes individual decision-making and the assessment of situations to meet goals. However, in the field of animal behavior, there is still a dominant behavioristic view that focuses on stimulus-response relationships, which contrasts the concept of agency.
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