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behaviourismBehaviorismus (ger.)

  • A theory and method of psychological investigation based on the study and analysis of behaviour. (OED 2012)
    behaviour
    1913

    [Psychology as the behaviorist views it is a purely objective experimental branch of natural science. Its theoretical goal is the prediction and control of behavior. Introspection forms no essential part of its methods, nor is the scientific value of its data dependent upon the readiness with which they lend themselves to interpretations in terms of consciousness. The behaviorist, in his efforts to get a unitary scheme of animal response, recognizes no dividing line between man and brute

    Watson, J.B. (1913). Psychology as the behaviorist views it. Psychol. Rev. 20, 158-77: 166.]

    1913

    behaviorism is the only consistent and logical functionalism

    Watson, J.B. (1913). Psychology as the behaviorist views it. Psychol. Rev. 20, 158-77: 166; cf. id. (1913) Image and affection in behavior. The Journal of Philosophy, Psychology and Scientific Methods 10, 421-8: 421.