... , thought, and the description of consciousness he would substitute for learning. For the goal of psychological explanation, he would substitute the forward-looking prediction and control of behavior, modeled on physics. In all, he was largely successful. Classical behaviorism is empiricist, atomist, peripheralist, associationist, materialist, and determinist. All problems are to be defined in terms of stimulus and response. Its goal ... was simply psychology without qualification. Later, Titchener, who opposed American functionalism, called the school Structuralism and this label became...

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