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Types of sequence in human behavior

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    The study of types of human behavioral sequence is relatively undeveloped. Five kinds of sequence can, however, be distinguished—those based on determinism, organicism, associationism, autonomy and a fifth as yet inadequately defined type which has been designated provisionally by the letter “X.”

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    These five types of behavioral sequence can be shown to stand in a phylogenetic relationship to each other.

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    All five are present in the human organism and tend to be correlated with the degree of adaptability of the behavior shown, e. g., the deterministic sequences are characteristic of relatively unadaptable behavior.

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    Inadequate appreciation of these different types of sequences has resulted in considerable confusion, especially among those who enter the study of human behavior from the basic sciences and also with respect to certain aspects of our thinking concerning physical and chemical therapy and in the understanding of the mechanisms of psychotherapy.

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    D. Ewen Cameron M. D.

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Delivered before the McGill Chapter of Sigma Xi, Montreal, February 22, 1944.

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Cameron, D.E. Types of sequence in human behavior. Psych Quar 18, 490–504 (1944). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01575805

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