Psychology as the Behaviorist Views It

1. Applied Behavior Analysis

1.1. Must be applied

1.2. Behavioral

1.3. Analytic

1.4. Technological

1.5. Conceptually

1.6. Systematic and effective

1.7. It should display some generality

2. The Conceptual Systems Dimension: Naturalism

2.1. The psychology of consciousness.

2.1.1. Studied consciousness for metaphysical reasons

2.1.2. Behavior for methodological reasons.

2.2. The psychology of behavior

2.2.1. behavior for methodological reasons

2.2.2. Metaphysical reasons

3. The Behavioral Dimension: Objectivity

3.1. Objectivism is the view that the functions of objects and events are essentialist, immutable, and independent of the behavior of organisms

4. The Analytic Dimension: Experimental

4.1. Prediction and control

5. The Applied Dimension: Applied Research, Behavioral Applications, and Practice

5.1. These applied branches of experimental psychology were defined by the societal importance of the behavioral relations they discovered (e.g., facts, generalizations), not by any particular behavior, stimuli, and/or organism.