p.115 I am going to present a brief statement of my own brand of psychology.
I shall here call it Operational Behaviorism.
p.116 For behavior as the thing observed also turns out to be essentially
an activity whereby the organism in question "operates." In behaving, an organism, as Brunswik [3] puts it,
"intends" and more or less successfully "conquers" its environment. It operates on its environment by such intendings
and conquerings.
p.116 psychology... must now take immediate experience for granted and then proceed to develop maps, rules,
and equations for finding one's way about.
p.117 Organisms... are immersed in environments and are driven by conditions of physiological disequilibrium.
And because of these environments and these disequilibria, they behave.
p.127 I doubt if you can get away from the general proposition which the schema embodies; namely, that we
do in psychology assume intervening variables more or less like the ones I have suggested, and that we do attempt to define
these intervening variables by going at them experimentally, i.e., operationally, from the two ends.
p.129 operational behaviorism... asserts that the ultimate interest of psychology is solely the prediction
and control of behavior... asserts that psychological concepts, i.e., the mental capacities and mental events - may be conceived
as objectively defined intervening variables... asserts that these intervening variables are to be defined wholly operationally
