Two behaviorists (Let's say it was Skinner and Watson) met each other at a party. One of the behaviorists says: "You're fine. How am I?)
You will only understand the joke if you know that behaviorists rejects introspection (knowing about the mind by observing your inner thoughts and experience)
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Book
10/5/2011 04:50:05 am
Do modern psychologists reject both behaviorists and introspectionists? Since both views are quite unscientific and sometimes subjective (but both views are also useful nonetheless). Nice joke by the way!
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Mr Hansson
10/5/2011 11:22:18 pm
Book, you are probably more updated than I, because you are at uni now, but aren't psychological research of today a combination of both? We try to guess the mental processes by looking at observable behavior because we know that individuals are not conscious about everything that goes in their mind - thus we can only gain partial knowledge of the mind through introspection.
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