... structuralists and founded his own approach to psychology. He felt that it was impossible to study consciousness because only outward behavior could be scientifically understood(Lahey, 1983). Watson's field was animal psychology; he tells us himself that he preferred to work with animals rather than human subjects, and disliked serving as an introspective subject(Leahey, 1980). He was deeply impressed by ... of behavior, modeled on physics. In all, he was largely successful. Classical behaviorism is empiricist, atomist, peripheralist, associationist, materialist, and determinist. All pr...

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