Box 11.1 "J. B. Watson, Modernism in Person" suggests that Watson's paper "Psychology as the behaviorist views it" was a manifesto. Why was it a manifesto?
A) it aggressively repudiated the past and set out a vision for the future of psychology.
B) it warmly asked for consensus and agreement among psychologists, asking psychologists to see the benefits of the old and the new psychology.
C) it was a very long article, filled with supporting empirical data and graphs that supported his thesis.
D) none of these.
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