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Kimble, Gregory A. – Psychological Review, 1994
The most important changes that have taken place in behaviorism since John B. Watson's 1913 article are the introduction of the intervening variable approach and the understanding that psychology is both an experimental and a psychometric science. The only observables available to psychology are stimuli and response. (SLD)
Descriptors: Behaviorism, Experimental Psychology, Psychometrics, Responses

Thompson, Richard F. – Psychological Review, 1994
The influence of behaviorism's methods and theories on theory and research in the neurosciences is examined, partly in light of John B. Watson's 1913 essay. An attempt is made to reconcile classical behaviorism and modern cognitive psychology and neuroscience. (SLD)
Descriptors: Behaviorism, Cognitive Psychology, Learning, Memory

Watson, John B. – Psychological Review, 1994
The behaviorist sees psychology as an objective experimental branch of natural science that can be studied without references to consciousness. Estimating states of consciousness as objects of investigation in themselves will allow the findings of psychology to become functional correlates of structure that can be explained in physicochemical…
Descriptors: Behavioral Science Research, Behaviorism, Cognitive Psychology, Experimental Psychology