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Distinguishing between acts and patterns

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  04 February 2010

Eliot Shimoff
Affiliation:
Department of Psychology, University of Maryland Baltimore County, Baltimore, MD 21228. shlmoff@umbc.edu

Abstract

The costliness of disrupting a pattern may not be a useful criterion for distinguishing between acts and patterns; there are instances in which omitted components of patterns are hard to detect (e.g., typographical errors), or in which distortions are easily introduced (e.g., slurred words in a trite phrase). Are there behavioral criteria for distinguishing between acts and patterns?

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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1995

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