ABSTRACT
The crucial difference is that the cognitive psychologists, through their official commitment to methodological behaviorism, had created a terminal disjunction between what they claimed to be their evidence and their subject matter. In practice, of course, reductionistic methodological behaviorism no more corresponds to what cognitivist psychologists have actually been doing in their research than was the case for the behaviorists. The psychological textbooks have continued to pay lip-service to methodological behaviorism. Dualism has been carried over into modern psychology by the official history of psychology created by the behaviorists, and their persuasive myths about both introspectionism and behaviorism. The myth of methodological behaviorism has been perpetuated in modern psychology by a continuing “dalliance” between the senses of behavior: The confusion of action with movement can often be used to lend credence to behaviourism. The unthinking distrust of introspection within modern psychology goes hand in hand with the unchallenged prestige of methodological behaviorism.
