AAT: Action Assembly Theory/Alice's Adventures in Theoryland

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At the outset it is important to note that the term “action assembly theory” is something of a misnomer in the sense that AAT is more appropriately viewed as a family of interrelated theoretical formulations. The common conceptual thread (the “DNA”) that runs through all of the members of this family is the basic idea that thoughts and overt actions are formulated by combining elemental units of information stored in long-term memory. Among the members of this extended family, then, are the original formulation of the theory (AAT; Greene, 1984) and “second generation Action Assembly Theory” (AAT2; Greene, 1997). Other family members include the “Theory of Transcendent Interactions” (TTI; Greene & Herbers, 2011), and the newest addition, the theory of “Adult Communicative Play” (ACP; Greene & Pruim, 2018).