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As we have already indicated, intuition is, according to our hypothesis, the means by which intelligence secures for cognition an immediate control over action. An intuition is a stabilised action programme* which is derived from experience, and which is effective because of its global, immediate, and flexible qualities.
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The term ‘action programme’ recalls the ‘Plan’ of Miller, Galanter and Pribram (G. A. Miller, E. Galanter, and K. H. Pribram: Plans and the Structure of Behavior, Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1967). These authors’ use of the term ‘Plan’ is, however, much wider. A Plan is any hierarchical process in the organism that can control the order in which a sequence of operations is performed (Miller et al., 1967, p. 16). Instincts, habits, and problem-solving procedures all presuppose Plans. Intuition, as we define it, therefore falls into this category of intervening variables. Yet, in addition, intuition presupposes a set of distinguishing features which confer specificity on it.
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Fischbein, E. (1975). Probability Learning. In: The Intuitive Sources of Probabilistic Thinking in Children. Synthese Library, vol 85. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-010-1858-6_3
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