Workshop: behaviorism

"Psychology (Ψ) is the science of behavior" this statement causes....

• general agreement

• contention

• excitement

• anxiety

The following sciences at some point departed from Philosophy...

• Astronomy, physics, maths, chemistry, and Ψ

• Physics, chemistry, biology, Astronomy, Ψ, and religion

• Physics, chemistry, biology, Astronomy, Ψ, and technology

• Astronomy, physics, chemistry, biology, and Ψ

Which of the following are facts (evidence).... based on observation

• The moon is not espheric, objects fall, people behave

• The moon is spheric, circles are perfect, humans have souls

• Good and evil exist, the universe is a perfect creation.

• I love you, you hate me, this class is bad, women are great

Paraphrase the following:

Byology broke with philosophy and theology in the same way. Leaving out the hypothetical assumptions of the philosophers and referred only to observations of natural phenomena

True or false:

A great advance (for behaviorists) happenned when psychologists could verify behavior in laboratory as the other sciences did it

• False

• true