Edward C. Tolman

Edward C. Tolman (born April 14, 1886, West Newton, Massachusetts, U.S.—died November 19, 1959, Berkeley, California) 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. Brother of the chemist and physicist Richard C. Tolman, Edward Tolman taught psychology at the University of California, Berkeley (1918–54). Although influenced by a number of other psychologists, including Edwin B. Holt,...