WATSON, JOHN BROADUS. Psychology from the standpoint of a behaviorist. il *$2.50 Lippincott 150
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“A treatise on the new American methods in psychology known as behaviourism. The essential feature of this school is that it regards man purely as a ‘reacting mass,’ and endeavours to determine his reactions without importing into the observation preconceived ideas, affecting interpretation. The present author, indeed, does not find it necessary to use such terms as ‘sensation,’ ‘perception,’ ‘attention,’ ‘will,’ ‘image,’ and the like. He states that he does not know what they mean, and he suggests that no one succeeds in using them consistently.”—Ath
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“By consistently disregarding all the essential steps in ‘thinking’ in which most psychologists (and the world at large) are interested, and by cavalierly treating the problems in which the behaviorist happens not to be interested, he produces a ‘psychology’ which is as true as the railway maps of any one company showing only the towns on its line, with its own route straight and prominent, and rival systems indicated if at all by lightly drawn and circuitous detours.” Joseph Jastrow
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“The present writer as he reads the book finds himself in continual expectation that now he is coming to the end of the physiology and the beginning of the psychology, but is continually disappointed. This book may inspire, and will direct, the student to practical researches of the highest interest to the advance of science. To this extent every psychologist will welcome it. It is difficult to find anything in its principle to disagree with, save only its limitation and negation.” H. W. Carr
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WATSON, ROBERT.[[2]] Stronger than his sea. *$1.90 (2c) Doran