Background
Miller, George Armitage was born on February 3, 1920 in Charleston, West Virginia, United States. Son of George E. and Florence (Armitage) Miller.
(2013 Reprint of 1960 Edition. Full facsimile of the origi...)
2013 Reprint of 1960 Edition. Full facsimile of the original edition, not reproduced with Optical Recognition Software. By 1960, psychology had come to be dominated by behaviorism and learning theory, which emphasized the observable stimulus and response components of human and animal behavior while ignoring the cognitive processes that mediate the relationship between the stimulus and response. The cognitive phenomena occurring within the "black box" between stimulus and response were of little interest to behaviorists, as their mathematical models worked without them. In 1960, the book "Plans and the Structure of Behavior," authored by George A. Miller, Eugene Galanter, and Karl H. Pribram, was published. In this volume, Miller and his colleagues sought to unify the behaviorists' learning theory with a cognitive model of learned behavior. Whereas the behaviorists suggested that a simple reflex arc underlies the acquisition of the stimulus-response relationship, Miller and his colleagues proposed that "some mediating organization of experience is necessary" somewhere between the stimulus and response, in effect a cognitive process which must include monitoring devices that control the acquisition of the stimulus-response relationship. They named this fundamental unit of behavior the T.O.T.E. for "Test - Operate - Test - Exit".
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(2013 Reprint of 1960 Edition. Full facsimile of the origi...)
2013 Reprint of 1960 Edition. Full facsimile of the original edition, not reproduced with Optical Recognition Software. By 1960, psychology had come to be dominated by behaviorism and learning theory, which emphasized the observable stimulus and response components of human and animal behavior while ignoring the cognitive processes that mediate the relationship between the stimulus and response. The cognitive phenomena occurring within the "black box" between stimulus and response were of little interest to behaviorists, as their mathematical models worked without them. In 1960, the book "Plans and the Structure of Behavior," authored by George A. Miller, Eugene Galanter, and Karl H. Pribram, was published. In this volume, Miller and his colleagues sought to unify the behaviorists' learning theory with a cognitive model of learned behavior. Whereas the behaviorists suggested that a simple reflex arc underlies the acquisition of the stimulus-response relationship, Miller and his colleagues proposed that "some mediating organization of experience is necessary" somewhere between the stimulus and response, in effect a cognitive process which must include monitoring devices that control the acquisition of the stimulus-response relationship. They named this fundamental unit of behavior the T.O.T.E. for "Test - Operate - Test - Exit".
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Miller, George Armitage was born on February 3, 1920 in Charleston, West Virginia, United States. Son of George E. and Florence (Armitage) Miller.
Bachelor, University Alabama, 1940. Master of Arts, University Alabama, 1941. AM, Harvard University, 1944.
Doctor of Philosophy, Harvard University, 1946. Doctor of Philosophy (honorary), University Louvain, 1976. Doctor Social Science (honorary), Yale University, 1979.
Doctor of Science (honorary), Columbia University, 1980. Doctor of Science (honorary), University Sussex, 1984. Doctor of Science (honorary), New School Social Research, 1993.
Doctor of Letters (honorary), Charleston University, 1992. Doctor of Science (honorary), New School Social Research, 1993. Doctor of Science (honorary), New School Social Research, 1993.
Doctor of Science (honorary), Princeton University, 1996. Doctor of Science (honorary), Williams College, 2000. Doctor of Science (honorary), Carnegie Mellon University, 2003.
Instructor psychology, U. Alabama, 1941-1943;
research fellow, Harvard Psycho-Acoustic Laboratory, 1944-1948;
assistant professor psychology, Harvard University, 1948-1951;
associate professor, Harvard University, 1955-1958;
professor, Harvard University, 1958-1968;
chairman department psychology, Harvard University, 1964-1967;
co-director Center for Cognitive Studies, Harvard University, 1960-1967;
professor, Rockefeller U., New York City, 1968-1979;
Adjunct Professor, Rockefeller U., 1979-1982;
professor psychology, Princeton University, 1979-1990;
James S. McDonnell Distinguished University professor psychology, Princeton University, 1982-1990;
James S. McDonnell Distinguished University professor psychology emeritus, Princeton University, since 1990;
program director McDonnell-Pew Program in Cognitive Neurosci., Princeton University, 1989-1994;
associate professor, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1951-1955. Visiting Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, 1972-1976, 82-83, member, 1950,70-72. Visiting professor Rockefeller U., 1967-1968.
Visiting professor Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1976-1979, group leader Lincoln Laboratory, 1953-1955. Fellow Center Advanced Study in Behavioral Sciences, Stanford University, 1958-1959. Fulbright research professor Oxford (England) University, 1963-1964.
Sesquicentennial professor of University Alabama, 1981.
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(2013 Reprint of 1960 Edition. Full facsimile of the origi...)
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Fellow British Psychological Association (honorary). Member National Academy of Sciences, American Association for the Advancement of Science (chairman section J 1981, John P. McGovern award 2000), American Psychological Association (president 1968-1969, Distinguished Science Contribution award 1963, William James Book award division general Psychology 1993, Outstanding Lifetime Contribution to Psychology award 2003), Eastern Psychological Association (president 1961-1962), Acoustical Society of America, Linguistic Society of America, American Statistical Association, American Philosophical Society, American Physiological Society, Psychometric Society, Society Experimental Psychologists (Warren medal 1972), American Academy Arts and Sciences, Psychonomic Society, Royal Netherlands Academy Arts and Sciences (foreign), Sigma Xi.
Married Katherine James, November 29, 1939 (deceased January 1996). Children: Nancy, Donnally James.