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shared by Minjie Kim on 09 Dec 08 - Cached

classical behaviorism formally and explicitly defined psychology as the science of behavior
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metaphysical behaviorism subscribes to the view that the only things that are real are things that are publicly observable
- Minjie Kim on 09 Dec 08
  
  this basically means that only things you can see exist, so it really puts a damper on all that happiness and love and sorrow and all that junk
  
  <div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">this basically means that only things you can see exist, so it really puts a damper on all that happiness and love and sorrow and all that junk</div>
  
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metaphysical behaviorism
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The question that arose from metaphysical behaviorism was again whether we really want to deny the existence or reality of all phenomena that aren't publicly observable
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if the existence of mental phenomena is denied because they are unobservable, is the existence of all unobservables, including unobservable experiences, denied?
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philosophical behaviorism emphasizes that mental concepts in psychological explanations mean nothing more than dispositions to engage in publicly observable behavior
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logical behaviorism emphasizes that mental concepts in psychological explanations must be verified in terms of publicly observable behavior
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shared by Minjie Kim on 04 Dec 08 - Cached

developed primarily in the United States, although it was certainly influenced by other traditions, such as European forms of empiricism
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methodological behaviorism and radical behaviorism
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early 19th century
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Subjective/conscious experience was regarded as mental, not physical
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not publicly observable, and could not be counted, measured, or recorded, at least not in the same way as the subject matter of chemistry or physics
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tended to pursue their concerns about mental/conscious/subjective experience according to some form of rational inquiry found in philosophy, rather than according to some understanding of the scientific method.
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regarded those movements as a subject matter of a different science--physiology, rather than psychology
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scholars in the early 19th century were concerned with the mechanics of the physical movements of the body
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