When1: 1913
When2: 1928
Who: John Broadus Watson [Watson, John Broadus]
What: psychologist
Where: USA
works\ Psychology as the Behaviorist Views It [1913]; Behavior: an Introduction to Comparative Psychology [1914]; Psychology from the Standpoint of a Behaviorist [1919]; Behaviorism [1924]; Psychological Care of Infant and Child [1928]
Detail: He lived 1878 to 1958 and founded behaviorism. He emphasized being objective and working only with observables. He studied reinforcement timing in instrumental learning, conditioned responses, and forming associations. Associations can only form between stimulus and response, not between stimuli. All behaviors depend on reflexes. All behavior and thought is stimulus-response, though people cannot observe mental stimuli and responses. Conditioning determines human behavior, so people learn almost all behaviors. Previous-behavior recency and frequency determine subsequent behavior. The goal of psychology is behavior prediction and control.
Classical conditioning can change human emotions.
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