Contemporary Scientific Psychology

Abstract

The previous chapter showed that humanistic psychology, psychotherapy, and cognitive psychology have not posed unfair obstacles to the development of TEAB. That Skinner chose to look to these “obstacles” for answers to the question of why TEAB has not become psychology seems attributable to two incorrect assumptions that he made regarding the nature and status of contemporary psychology. These assumptions are that (a) contemporary psychology is not the science of behavior and (b) psychology is not regarded as a member of the scientific community. In the present chapter, we present evidence inconsistent with Skinner’s assumptions and then propose an alternative hypothesis for why TEAB has not become psychology.