Good read. I'd go further and suggest that scientific evidence against behaviorism is impossible in principle. Behaviorism simply says that you can model behavior as p(behavior | experience, genes). Cognitivism just adds a latent state, r (representation):
p(b|e,g) = ∫ p(b|r) p(r|e,g) dr.
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The more I study the issue and the original texts, the more the scientific arguments against behaviorism (and, conversely, in favor of the cognitive “revolution”) seem weaker to me. This is one of my favorite papers across all fields (and very convincing IMHO) www.academia.edu/75630727/The...
The history of experimental psychology in America is typically told as a series of two Kuhnian revolutions separating three periods of normal science dominated by the mentalist, then behaviorist, and ...
