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Behaviourism, analytic
2 Influences and arguments A first, important influence on analytical behaviourism was the doctrine of verificationism. According to one version of this view,the meanings of statements are given by the procedures used to find out if they are true. This was supposed to eliminate meanings as occult entities, and put the subject on a scientific footing. Anyone attracted by that view would have seen considerable merit in behaviourism. For we typically verify statements about other people's mental...
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Behaviourism in the social sciences
1990 ) the use of the ‘experimental' method persisted in social psychology. It was assumed that the complex situations in which human beings found themselves could be split up into simple states of the environment which could be treated as values of variables. Responses too were partitioned in a similar manner. Neither the role of the actor's interpretation of the stimulus conditions nor the actor's intention in responding were admitted as relevant, or as competing with the interpretation...