Reese H W
Behav Anal. 2001 Fall;24(2):227-39. doi: 10.1007/BF03392033.
Many issues seem to have appeared, disappeared, and reappeared in the behavioral sciences during the 20th century. Salient examples discussed in the present paper are consciousness, including the concept itself and consciousness in nonhuman animals; the method of introspection; and cognition, including the interpretation of mental imagery and the role of language in thinking. One possible explanation of the apparent cycles is consistent with a suggestion by John B. Watson: Important issues are found to be intractable and are abandoned, but they recur when newer theories and methods emerge.
在20世纪，许多问题似乎在行为科学领域出现、消失，然后又再次出现。本文讨论的突出例子包括意识，涵盖意识概念本身以及非人类动物的意识；内省法；还有认知，包括对心理意象的解读以及语言在思维中的作用。对于这种明显循环现象的一种可能解释与约翰·B·华生的一个观点相符：重要问题被发现难以解决便被摒弃，但当更新的理论和方法出现时，它们又会再次出现。
