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guishes it from, say, reflex behavior is the sort of 

 irreversible relationship to which Hunter calls atten- 

 tion. The experience of recognizing the color yellow 

 is an observable phenomenon, and it is as truly a part 

 of my organic reaction to a flame as is my cry of 

 "fire!" 



The various enterprises, of late so energetically 

 prosecuted, to formulate something that can be called 

 psychology with the concepts of consciousness and 

 awareness expunged have, until now, left some of us 

 who are not psychologists in a somewhat dazed condi- 

 tion. The "objective psychologists" themselves seem 

 to have fared but little better, if one may judge by the 

 trouble they are experiencing in coming to an agree- 

 ment upon a definition of their denatured science. 

 Having distilled off and discarded that spiritual es- 

 sence of behavior which seems to have intoxicated 

 their elders with its heady mysticism, these younger 

 experimentalists are evidently still in doubt about 

 what portion of the residue is really psychology. 



To the biologist most of this newest psychology 

 seems like very orthodox physiology — good of its kind 

 and worthy of all possible encouragement. The pur- 

 suit of such studies in a physiological laboratory ex- 

 cites no comment, but traditionally the product of a 

 psychological laboratory is expected to have a dis- 

 tinctive flavor or bouquet other than the smelly 

 effluvia usually associated with experimental physi- 

 ology. And if in the process of the purification of psy- 



