The psychological and philosophical movement holding that mental states are either identical with or reducible to dispositions to behavior, and that only publicly observable behavior is a legitimate subject of scientific psychology.
Established the methodological framework for experimental psychology; the philosophical version (logical behaviorism) proposed that mental state concepts are analyzable as dispositions to respond — making psychology empirically tractable but eliminating the inner life.
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