For John B. Watson, the appropriate subject matter of psychology was

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John B. Watson was a behaviorist who believed that psychology should focus on observable behavior, particularly in animals. He rejected the study of consciousness and the unconscious as it was not objectively measurable. Similarly, Watson did not subscribe to human physiology as being the focus of psychology, as physiology was considered too narrow of an approach to fully understand behavior.