As a doctoral student and professor of psychology, John Watson studied the behavior of animals. He especially was interested in stimulus-response reactions to various situations, such as rats going ...

John Broadus Watson was a pioneering psychologist who revolutionized psychology in the early 20th century by introducing behaviorism, a scientific approach that focused on observable behaviors instead ...

A GREAT many things in life may have annoyed- the discoverer of Behaviorism. Many things do annoy him — including most psychoana-lysts, university trustees, mothers, “psychological” novelists, Nice ...

Psychology... is a purely objective experimental branch of natural science. Its theoretical goal is the prediction and control of behavior. Introspection forms no ...