Who rejected the ideas of mind and consciousness as subject matter of Psychology?

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Watson rejected introspectionism as both unreliable and effete and redefined psychology, instead, as the science of behaviour.
The cognitive revolution, in turn, replaced the mind as the subject of study, and rejected both behaviourism and a reliance on introspection.
Watson was interested in the study of conscious experience and wanted to analyse the constituents or the building blocks of the mind.

Hence, from the given four psychologists, John Watson rejected the ideas of mind and consciousness as subject matters of psychology.

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Sadler attracted the votes of the Leeds labourers because he advocated government intervention to regulate factory conditions in general and children's working hours in particular.
James defined psychology as the conscience of the mental life because he thought that consciousness is what makes the mental life possible
Wilhelm Maximilian Wundt (1832–1920) is known to posterity as the “father of experimental psychology” and the founder of the first psychology laboratory