A theoretical basis of human behavior / by Albert Paul Weiss.

  • Albert Paul Weiss
Date:
1925
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Credit: A theoretical basis of human behavior / by Albert Paul Weiss. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    believe that behavioristic psychology will be recog¬ nized as an interlocking segment through which the social sciences will become an extension of the natural sciences. As an educational problem our whole conception of science will probably change. Phys¬ ical science has not seriously interfered with tradi¬ tional beliefs of either the educated or uneducated j biological science and the theory of organic evolu¬ tion in particular has been widely accepted by the educated and is beginning to be accepted by the un¬ educated ; the social science of the future will intro¬ duce the conception of social evolution which will brand as illusion and error a much greater percentage of long cherished beliefs and ideals, but this sacri¬ fice is now scarcely anticipated by the educated and is entirely unsuspected by the masses of mankind. This book is an attempt to bridge over the gaps between traditional, popular, and behavioristic psy¬ chology by showing their interrelations. The under¬ lying plan of the book is to present the fundamental principles of behaviorism as the writer sees them, and to compare them with the most important con¬ ceptions in traditional subjective psychology and the sociological systems that are based upon it. How¬ ever, the behavioristic conception in psychology and sociology is of such recent origin that no attempt has been made to classify the various writers on behaviorism. Hence most of what appears in this
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