Psychology / Unit 1 Psych 0015 short lesson, about 20 seconds
Behaviorism
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The idea
Behaviorism restricted psychology to observable behavior and its environmental causes, setting mental processes aside as unmeasurable.
In practice
Watson claimed he could shape any healthy infant into any profession by controlling that infant's environment alone.
Where people slip
Setting mental processes aside was a methodological rule, not a claim that thought does not exist.
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