...Professor JB Watson, rejoices in the fact that "It is possible to write a psychology . . . and . . . never to use the terms consciousness, mental states, mind, content, will, imagery, and the like"; 13 as if things that one does not mention will cease to exist. On the other hand, the metaphysical...

...observation." "It is possible to write a psychology, to define it ... as the 'science of behavior,' and never to use the terms consciousness, mental states, mind, content, will, imagery, and the like." And in his latest book (Psychology from the Standpoint of a Behaviorist, p. viii), he says, "the reader...

...argument should be made constructive. It is possible to write a psychology, to define it as Pillsbury does (as the " science of behavior "), and never go back...content, will, imagery, and the like. It can be done naturally and conveniently in a few years from now without running into the absurd terminology of Beer,...

...considered on the same plane - - . It is possible to define [psychologyl as the ‘science of behavior' and never to - . . use the terms consciousness, mental states, mind, content, will, imagery. (Watson, 1914, pp. 9, 27) The Rebirth of Mental Imagery as a Scientific Subject Until about the mid-1960s,...

...physics' (p. 9). And again: ‘It is possible to define as “the science of behavior” and never to go back upon the definition: never to use the terms...states, mind, content, will, imagery, and the like' (p. 27). There is no doubt that Watson's view is extreme. Bolles (1975) has speculated that Watson's...

...the Scylla of parallelism and the Charybdis of interaction " (p. 9). This "science of behavior " is " never to use the terms consciousness, mental states, mind, content, will, imagery, and the like." The science of behavior can be written in "terms of stimulus and response, in terms of habit formation,...