IT is said that when Faraday showed a group of scientists his discovery of magneto-electricity, someone asked: ‘Of what use is it?' To which he replied: ‘Of what use is a babe?' Dr. Watson not only ...

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 ...

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 ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Journal Information Founded in 1973 under the name Behaviorism, Behavior and Philosophy is a journal devoted to the philosophical, metaphysical, and ...

In so doing, Skinner’s behaviorism includes consciousness as a potential important consideration much more than Watson, although Skinner did strongly argue that consciousness should not be thought of ...

Have you ever wondered exactly why people do what they do? According to a school of thought known as behaviorism, it all comes down to the patterns of learning we've acquired through associations, ...