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Behaviorism exhibits an unwholesome narrowness. While the school claims to be revolutionary, it actually is dogmatically conservative. Even now, as an adult science, physics permits itself at least one new idea about the nucleus of the atom per year. In spite of the youth of psychology, it seldom seems to occur to Behaviorists that new functional ideas could be needed in our science.

Organic systems offer countless puzzling facts to which the same procedure can be profitably applied. We know a few things about the effects of stimulations upon the sense organs of our subjects. We also observe their overt responses. But between these two terms there is more terra incognita than was on the map of Africa seventy years ago. Obviously, behavior depends upon the the dynamics of the organism...