Cumulative Record. Chapter 52: Can Psychology Be a Science of Mind? Quote 20

The attempt to use the apparent references to an initiating mind and to convert the vernacular into the language of a science was … a mistake. Watson and other early behaviorists thought the mistake lay in using introspection … The problem was not introspection, however. It was the initiating self or mind to which introspection seemed to gain access. (p. 671)