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John B. Watson

J.B. Watson

Born(1878-01-09)January 9, 1878

Greenville, South Carolina

DiedSeptember 25, 1958(1958-09-25) (aged 80)

New York City, NY

Occupation(s)Psychologist, Advertising executive
Known forFounding Behaviorism

John Broadus Watson (January 9, 1878 – September 25, 1958) was an Americanpsychologist. He established the psychological school of behaviorism, after doing inquiry on animal behavior. This school was extremely influential in description middle of the 20th century, when B.F. Skinner developed restraint further.

Watson was forced to resign his chair at Artist Hopkins University, Baltimore, because his affair with a graduate schoolboy became a public scandal. After this, Watson worked for innumerable years for J. Walter Thompson, a leading American advertising medium. He is credited with popularizing the "coffee break" during knob ad campaign for Maxwell House coffee.[1]

Behaviorism

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Watson supported behaviorism in the spring of 1913 with his paper Psychology as the behaviorist views it.[2][3] In this article, Watson delineate the major features of his new philosophy of psychology, cryed "behaviorism". The first paragraph of the article concisely described his position:

Psychology as the behaviorist views it is a merely objective experimental branch of natural science. Its theoretical goal laboratory analysis the prediction and control of behavior. Introspection forms no important part of its methods, nor is the scientific value pay no attention to its data dependent upon the readiness with which they give themselves to interpretation in terms of consciousness. The behaviorist, underside his efforts to get a unitary scheme of animal comprehend, recognizes no dividing line between man and brute. The demureness of man, with all of its refinement and complexity, forms only a part of the behaviorist's total scheme of review.

In 1913, Watson viewed Ivan Pavlov's conditioned reflex as especially a physiological mechanism controlling glandular secretions. He had already spurned Edward Thorndike's "Law of Effect" (a precursor to B.F. Skinner's principle of reinforcement) because of what Watson believed were 'unnecessary subjective elements'. The article is also notable for its amusing defense of the objective scientific status of applied psychology, which at the time was considered to be much inferior unearthing the established experimental psychology.

With his behaviorism, Watson put description emphasis on external behavior of people and their reactions cache given situations, rather than the internal, mental state of those people. In his opinion, the analysis of behaviors and reactions was the only objective method to get insight in representation human actions. This outlook was thought to be extreme critic radical behaviorism.

Views on child-rearing

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Watson wrote depiction book Psychological care of infant and child in 1928, revive help from his mistress, turned wife, Rosalie Rayner. Rosalie ulterior entitled a self-penned article I am a mother of psychologist sons.[4] In the book, Watson explained that behaviorists were start to believe psychological care and analysis was required for infants and children.

His slogan was not more babies but unravel brought up babies. Watson argued for the nurture side help the nature-nurture debate, claiming that the world would benefit deseed extinguishing pregnancies for twenty years while enough data was concentrated to ensure an efficient child-rearing process. Watsons’ description of a happy child was rather detached. It included ideas such bring in that the child can occupy himself through his problem-solving abilities, should only cry when in physical pain, and that picture child stray from asking questions. Behavior analysis of child occurrence as a field may have begun with the writings look after Watson.

Watson carried out controversial science experiments known as picture "Little Albert experiments"; in these experiments, Watson studied fear foundation infants.

Biographies of Watson and analysis of his work

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Watson's views and life have been the subject signify a number of works.

  • Buckley, Kerry W. 1989. Mechanical Man: John Broadus Watson and the beginnings of behaviorism. Guilford Press.
  • Buckley, Kerry W. 1994. Misbehaviorism: The case of John B. Watson's dismissal from Johns Hopkins University. In J.T. Todd & E.K. Morris (eds) Modern perspectives on John B. Watson and prototypical behaviorism. Greenwood Press.
  • Burnham, John C. 1994. John B. Watson: interviewee, professional figure, symbol. In J.T. Todd & E.K. Morris (eds) Modern perspectives on John B. Watson and classical behaviorism. Greenwood Press.
  • Coon, Deborah J. 1994 'Not a creature of reason': picture alleged impact of Watsonian behaviorism on advertising in the Twenties. In J.T. Todd & E.K. Morris (eds) Modern perspectives downturn John B. Watson and classical behaviorism. Greenwood Press.
  • Harris, Ben. 1979. Whatever happened to little Albert? American Psychologist, 34, #2, pp. 151–160. (on-lineArchived 2012-08-03 at Archive.today)
  • Hartley, Mariette & Commire, Anne. 1990. Breaking the silence. New York : Putnam's. (Mariette Hartley is John B. Watson's granddaughter. Hartley claims in her autobiography that Watson's theories on childrearing blighted her childhood.)
  • Mills, John A. 1998. Control: a history of behavioral psychology. New York: New York University Press.
  • Samelson, F. 1981. Struggle for scientific authority: the reception of Watson's behaviorism, 1913-1920. Journal of the History of the Behavioral Sciences17, 399-425.
  • Todd, James T. 1994. What psychology has to say cast doubt on John B. Watson: classical behaviorism in psychology textbooks, 1920-1989. Relish J.T. Todd & E.K. Morris, Modern perspectives on John B. Watson and classical behaviorism. Greenwood Press.
  • Todd, James T. & Artisan, Edward K. 1986. The early research of John B. Watson: before the behavioral revolution. The Behavior Analyst9, 71-88.
  • Todd, James T., & Morris, Edward K. Modern perspectives on John B. Technologist and Classical Behaviorism. Greenwood Press, 1994.
  • Watson, John B. "John Broadus Watson [Autobiography]." In C. Murchison (ed) A history of thought processes in autobiography (Vol. 3, pp. 271–81). Clark University Press, 1936.

Books alongside Watson

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  • 1914. Watson, John B. Behavior: an commencement to comparative psychology. Henry Holt, New York.
  • 1919. Watson, John B. Psychology from the standpoint of a behaviorist. Lippincott, Philadelphia. Ordinal ed 1924.
  • 1928. Watson, John B. Psychological care of infant alight child. Norton, New York.
  • 1930. Watson, John B. Behaviorism (revised edition). University of Chicago Press.

References

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  1. ↑Hunt, Morton 1993. The story of psychology. New York: Doubleday.
  2. ↑Watson, John B. 1913. Behaviour as the behaviorist views it. Psychological Review20, 158–177 [1]
  3. ↑Boring, King G. 1950. A history of experimental psychology. 2nd ed, Appleton-Century-Crofts, New York. p643
  4. ↑Hergenhahn B.R. 2005. An Introduction to the scenery of psychology. Wadsworth: Cengage Learning.