Abstract
THERE has been a great deal of controversy, especially in the philosophical journals of America, concerning the theory of behaviourism. Prof. Watson is, we believe, the originator of the term and the recognised leader in its application as a method in psychology. The book before us is not an exposition of the theory; it takes it as accepted, and puts forward an. elementary, but nevertheless complete, schematic outline of the science of psychology, its scope and its method, regarded from this point of view. It therefore, better than any detailed exposition, sets before us the advantages and the disadvantages, the limitations and inclusions and exclusions, of psychology as the behaviourist conceives it.
Psychology from the Standpoint of a Behaviorist.
By Prof. John B. Watson. (Lippincott's College Texts.) Pp. xiii + 429. (Philadelphia and London: J. B. Lippincott Co., 1919.) Price 10s. 6d. net.
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CARR, H. Psychology from the Standpoint of a Behaviorist . Nature 105, 512–513 (1920). https://doi.org/10.1038/105512a0
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