Complexity Reference: compref688 (BibTex)

Authors: Sambrook,T Whiten,A

Year: 1997

Title: On the Nature of Complexity in Cognitive and Behavioural Science

Journal: Theory and Psychology, 7, 191-213

Comments: Reviews information theoretic measures of complexity. Uses Chaitin's distinction between the "organisational" and "pattern" parts of algorithmic complexity and applies it to hierarchies of explanation in psychology and the social sciences.

Keywords: HIERARCHY, PSYCOLOGY, KOLMOGOROV,

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