Before revision: In 1909, at John Hopkins University’ s Southern Society for Philosophy and Psychology, Watson stated that “these trends away from introspection will lead psychology toward the perfection of technique of the physical sciences.” Later, in 1913 he declared, “never use the term consciousness, mental state, mind, content, introspectively verifiable, imagery and the like…it can be done in terms of stimulus and response, in terms of habit formation, habit integrations and the like.” Jacques Loeb: (1859-1924) Loeb, a mechanist physiologist, believed animal behaviour was of no particular purpose or design and could be explained in terms of environmental stimulus.
After revision: In 1909, at Johns Hopkins School of Medicine' s Southern Society for Philosophy and Psychology, Watson stated that “these trends away from introspection will lead psychology toward the perfection of technique of the physical sciences.” Later, in 1913 he declared, “never use the term consciousness, mental state, mind, content, introspectively verifiable, imagery and the like…it can be done in terms of stimulus and response, in terms of habit formation, habit integrations and the like.” Jacques Loeb: (1859-1924) Loeb, a mechanist physiologist, believed animal behaviour was of no particular purpose or design and could be explained in terms of environmental stimulus.