<Table> <Tr> <Td> </Td> <Td> This article's lead section does not adequately summarize key points of its contents . Please consider expanding the lead to provide an accessible overview of all important aspects of the article . Please discuss this issue on the article's talk page . (August 2014) </Td> </Tr> </Table> <Tr> <Td> </Td> <Td> This article's lead section does not adequately summarize key points of its contents . Please consider expanding the lead to provide an accessible overview of all important aspects of the article . Please discuss this issue on the article's talk page . (August 2014) </Td> </Tr> <P> Radical behaviorism, or the conceptual analysis of behavior, was pioneered by B.F. Skinner and is his "philosophy of the science of behavior ." It refers to the philosophy behind behavior analysis, and is to be distinguished from methodological behaviorism--which has an intense emphasis on observable behaviors--by its inclusion of thinking, feeling, and other private events in the analysis of human and animal psychology . The research in behavior analysis is called the experimental analysis of behavior and the application of this field is called applied behavior analysis (ABA). </P> <P> Radical behaviorism inherits from behaviorism the position that the science of behavior is a natural science, a belief that animal behavior can be studied profitably and compared with human behavior, a strong emphasis on the environment as cause of behavior, and an emphasis on the operations involved in the modification of behavior . Radical behaviorism does not claim that organisms are tabula rasa whose behavior is unaffected by biological or genetic endowment . Rather, it simply asserts that experiential factors play a major role in determining the behavior of many complex organisms, and that the study of these matters is a major field of research in its own right . </P>

Who proposed the extreme form of behaviorism known as radical behaviorism