ABSTRACT
In the early days of experimental psychology, B.F. Skinner gave us the “black box” of behaviourism (Skinner, 1969). In the world of Skinner, the stimulus and the response were everything. The black box, the organism doing the responding, was simply a processing mechanism. The sensory systems were important for perceiving the stimulus, motor systems were necessary for generating a response. Cognitive elements were simply not an issue of interest. The black box was not required to think.
