Edward Chace Tolman was an #American #psychologist who developed a system of #psychology known as…

Edward Chace Tolman was an #American #psychologist who developed a system of #psychology known as #purposive, or molar, #behaviourism, which attempts to explore the entire action of the total #organism.

Because of his strong affiliation with building a scientific psychology he embraced the core notion of behaviorism—that what an organism does is the source of #legitimate data.

Contrary to John B. Watson's #atomism approach, Tolman advocated the use of intervening variables and focused on a number of very non-behaviorist processes such as purpose, #expectation, #belief and spatial #representation.

His major book was Purposive Behavior in Animals and Men (1932) in which he summarized a significant series of experiments on the white rat.

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