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B.F. Skinner called it methodological behaviorism.
Methodological behaviorism did just the reverse: by dealing exclusively with external antecedent events it turned attention away from self-observation and self-knowledge.
Skinner, B. F. (2011-08-24). About Behaviorism (Vintage) (p. 18). Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group. Kindle Edition.