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Bookmark or Share- Did John B. Watson Really “Found” Behaviorism? - PMCJohn B. Watson’s Contribution: Was Behaviorism Really “Founded”? The origin of behaviorism has long been linked to John B. Watson, about whom much has been written and many talks given, especially during 2013, the centennial of his well-known Columbia lecture, “Psychology as the Behaviorist Views It.”.
- Behaviorism In PsychologyAs proposed by John B. Watson, methodological behaviorism is a school of thought in psychology that maintains that psychologists should study only observable, measurable behaviors and not internal mental processes. According to Watson, since thoughts, feelings, and desires can’t be observed directly, they should not be part of psychological ...
- Watson, John | SpringerLinkJohn Broadus Watson (1878–1958). In a recent study of the 100 most eminent psychologists of the twentieth century, Watson was ranked 17th among such pioneers as B.F. Skinner, Jean Piaget, and Carl Rogers (Haggbloom et al. 2002).Known as the father of behaviorism, Watson’s influence involved the codification and publication of behaviorism into prominence within the field of psychology as ...
- John B. Watson - New World EncyclopediaJohn B. Watson. John Broadus Watson (January 9, 1878 – September 25, 1958) was an American psychologist who established the psychological school of behaviorism. He did extensive research on animal behavior, but is perhaps best known for having claimed that he could take any 12 healthy infants and, by applying behavioral techniques, create ...
- John B. Watson | Contributions, Theory, & Biography | BritannicaJohn B. Watson, American psychologist who codified and publicized behaviorism, which, in his view, was restricted to the objective, experimental study of the relations between environmental events and human behavior. Watsonian behaviorism was the dominant psychology in the United States during the 1920s and ‘30s.
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