PSYCHOLOGICAL BEHAVIORISM AND BEHAVIORIZING PSYCHOLOGY

Paradigmatic or psychological behaviorism (PB), in a four-decade histo ry of development, has been shaped by its goal, the establishment of a behaviorism that can also serve as the approach in psychology (Watson 's original goal). In the process, PB has become a new generation of b ehaviorism with abundant heuristic avenues for development in theory, philosophy, methodology, and research. Psychology has resources, purvi ew and problem areas, and nascent developments of many kinds, gathered in chaotic diversity, needing unification (and other things) that cog nitivism cannot provide. Behaviorism can, within PB's multilevel frame work for connecting and advancing both psychology and behaviorism.