Behaviorism Research Paper
Running Head: BEHAVIORISM IS NOT THOUGHTS THAT COUNTS.
Behaviorism is not the thought that counts
Abstract
Behaviorism was the third school of thought that manifested in the year of 1913 mainly because of the Structuralisms and Functionalists’ mindset that introspection and mind/consciousness was the main reason on how our minds work mechanically. One of the main persons responsible for the Behaviorism movement was John B. Watson who felt a need to restructure Psychology into a scientific psychology on the basis that behavior could be observed through stimulus and response methods and could be proven by experiments. Other schools of thought felt strong about the consciousness influenced our behavior as well and how we thought and with the help of Behaviorism and its theorists it changed how theorist saw Psychology as well as improved it.
Introduction Behaviorism started off very definitely and consciously as a "school," opposed to the supposedly dominant school of structuralism, and to functionalism as represented by William James and the Chicago group (Woodworth, 1948). The debate of how Psychology was of the conscious mind functioned and how it was measured scientifically was the reason behaviorism was introduced as a new school of thought. Behaviorism began in the late 1800’s mostly due to the rebuttal of Structuralism’s Introspection and Functionalist’s Mind, Soul and Consciousness theories in regards to how the brain psychology. It was not observed nor was it able to be recorded scientifically. Behaviorists disagreed with these two schools of thoughts because if there was a behavior that was the result of the situation that behavior could be recorded and well as conditioned and if experimented the results would always come out the same because the brain was considered a machine and given the situation would always behave the same way because of the environment. Animal Psychology was the beginnings of Behavioral Psychology despite
Behaviorism is not the thought that counts
Abstract
Behaviorism was the third school of thought that manifested in the year of 1913 mainly because of the Structuralisms and Functionalists’ mindset that introspection and mind/consciousness was the main reason on how our minds work mechanically. One of the main persons responsible for the Behaviorism movement was John B. Watson who felt a need to restructure Psychology into a scientific psychology on the basis that behavior could be observed through stimulus and response methods and could be proven by experiments. Other schools of thought felt strong about the consciousness influenced our behavior as well and how we thought and with the help of Behaviorism and its theorists it changed how theorist saw Psychology as well as improved it.
Introduction Behaviorism started off very definitely and consciously as a "school," opposed to the supposedly dominant school of structuralism, and to functionalism as represented by William James and the Chicago group (Woodworth, 1948). The debate of how Psychology was of the conscious mind functioned and how it was measured scientifically was the reason behaviorism was introduced as a new school of thought. Behaviorism began in the late 1800’s mostly due to the rebuttal of Structuralism’s Introspection and Functionalist’s Mind, Soul and Consciousness theories in regards to how the brain psychology. It was not observed nor was it able to be recorded scientifically. Behaviorists disagreed with these two schools of thoughts because if there was a behavior that was the result of the situation that behavior could be recorded and well as conditioned and if experimented the results would always come out the same because the brain was considered a machine and given the situation would always behave the same way because of the environment. Animal Psychology was the beginnings of Behavioral Psychology despite
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