Arthur Staats has proposed a "psychological behaviorism" portrayed as a more advanced perspective than radical behaviorism and behavior analysis. The explicit goals of psychological behaviorism is to behaviorize psychology as well as to psychologize behaviorism and, thereby, to construct a comprehensive unified theory in psychology. A scrutiny of Staats' recent concerns regarding the psychologizing of behaviorism shows that they are encumbered with at least four major problems: (1) a disregard for the insistence upon reliable analytic units, (2) a return to treating structural properties as causes of behavior, (3) an attempted redefinition of basic concepts in terms of central nervous processes, and (4) extensive misrepresentation of radical behaviorism and behavior analysis. Keywords: psychological behaviorism, radical behaviorism, units of analysis, basic behavioral repertoire, behavior-behavior relations, emotional response, misrepresentation
