Excerpt from Psychological Review, 1918, Vol. 25 Professor Watson has recently attempted a rigorously physiological interpretation of the learning process. He is especially anxious to avoid anyappeal to conscious guidance, or to conscious pleasure and displeasure, and 'to account for the elimination of useless movements upon purely objective grounds.' 4 It is not clear that he would Wish to reject teleology of the sort that is here proposed. In any case, I cannot see that his account of the matter, assuming it to be correct, is in essential disagreement with the above analysis. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.