Angell, perhaps the most progressive functional psychologists, suggested "that it would be profitable if consciousness were forgotten and animal and human behavior described objectively instead" (Schultz, 2000, p. 272). ... By the 1920's, psychology captured the public attention like an outbreak of the Ebola virus. ... Robert Woodworth wrote that American psychologists were "slowly coming down with behaviorism as more and more of them, from 1904 on, expressed a preference for defining psychology as the science of behavior rather than as an attempt to describe consciousness." ...

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