ABSTRACT

Behaviorism has taught people a lot, and has helped move psychology towards the status of a science, but that science, when it finally arrives, will not be thoroughly behavioristic. The Classical Theory of Probability had the odd difficulty that it functioned properly only when nothing was known about the way the system to which it was applied actually worked. Albert Einstein rejected the popular view that quantum mechanics (QM) was the final word in physical theory and believed that it would eventually be replaced with a more fundamental, deterministic theory. He denied that there was any fundamental randomness in the universe and believed that the time at which any individual atom emits radiation is really determined in advance and that there would be some future theory, which he did not specify, that would allow people to predict when this would happen, even though the quantum theory did not.