Original sentence: For example, the methodology attempts to determine the cognitive capacity of animals through observation without the necessity that this observation be regulated or controlled as in an experiment; however, behavior in an experiment can be interpreted using the methodology.In psychology, anecdotal cognitivism is a methodology for interpreting animal behavior in terms of mental states, comparable to the mental states of humans
Edited sentence: In psychology, anecdotal cognitivism is belief in that ability to judge animal cognitive capacity through observation, and that there is no necessity that this observation be regulated or controlled, like in an experiment, as behaviorism would have it