In addition, to classical behaviorists cognitive processes are not regarded as necessary factors in explaining behavior. They are seen as epiphenomena byproducts of behavior with no causal role and perhaps even no meaningful role to behavior itself.
Skinner is a determinist and an environmentalist .
Science is an attitiude that values empirical observation-deal with facts rather than what someone has says about them. Science is a search for order and lawful relationships prediction, control, and description 8. The organism first does something and then is reinforced by the environment. Individual history of reinforcement 17.