“According to Watson, psychology is a purely objective experimental branch of natural science. It’s theoretical goal is the prediction and control of behavior. It has been maintained that psychology is a study of the science of the phenomena of consciousness” (Watson, 1914, p. 1). Watson rejected Freud’s beliefs of psychology because he thought that there was not any scientific basis to them. Because Watson was a true scientist, I believe that he thought Freud’s data was subjective and that the observations made could be easily manipulated. “His view of behaviorism was a reaction to introspection, where each researcher served as his or her own research subject, and the study of consciousness by Freud and others, which Watson believed to be highly subjective and unscientific” (John B. Watson (1878-1958) – Popularizing Behaviorism, The Little Albert Study, The “Dozen Healthy Infants”, Life after the University,” n.d., p. 2543). He believed that controlled laboratory studies would be the most effective way to study learning. “Watson not only eliminated the study of motivation,…