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In 1913, in what became known as the Behaviorist Manifesto, John
SEEDMAGAZINE.COM 2010
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Psychology as the Behaviorist Views It. Psychological Review (20) 158-177.
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By contrast with their Behaviorist predecessors, most cognitive psychologists today hold that imagery has an essential role to play in our mental economy.
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It also led to a precipitous decline in scientific interest in imagery, especially in the United States after the Behaviorist movement took hold.
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Although few later Behaviorist psychologists (or their philosophical allies) expressed themselves on the matter in quite the strong and explicit terms sometimes used by Watson, the era of Behaviorist psychology is characterized by a marked skepticism about imagery (if not its existence, at least its psychological importance) amongst both psychologists and philosophers.
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Behaviorist psychologists took up operationalism (or operationism, as it was more often called in psychology) as a weapon in their fight against more traditional psychologists, especially those who prized introspection as the most important source of psychological knowledge.
Operationalism Chang, Hasok 2009
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Should Sotomayer get to turn SCOTUS into a sandbox in which she can play robed Behaviorist, those who suffer the delusion that she is a populist, ingrained with public purpose, WILL be unpleasantly surprised.
The Volokh Conspiracy » Understanding the Point at Issue in the Judicial Empathy Debate: 2009
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A revival of interest in imagery was an important component of the so called cognitive revolution in psychology during the 1960s and early 1970s, a period when the Behaviorist intellectual hegemony over the field was broken and the concept of mental representation was established as central and vital to psychological theorizing (Baars, 1986; Gardner, 1987; but see also Leahey, 1992).
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Behaviorist to the rescue « The Life and Times of Organic Mama
Behaviorist to the rescue « The Life and Times of Organic Mama 2009
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Paivio's work (together with Shepard's mental rotation experiments) probably played the key role in re-establishing imagery as a scientifically wothwhile topic of investigation in cognitive science, aftre the era of Behaviorist neglect of the phenomenon.
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