Behaviorism

by John B. Watson

Overview

Watson was the father of behaviorism. His now-revered lectures on the subject defined behaviorism as a natural science that takes the whole field of human adjustment as its own. It is the business of behaviorist psychology to predict and control human activity

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781560009948
Publisher:	Transaction Publishers
Publication date:	01/30/1997
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	276
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x (d)

About the Author

John Watson (1878-1958) was an American psychologist who in the early 1900's codified and forcefully publicized behaviorism, which became the dominant school of psychology in the United States during the 1920s and 1930s. Watson served as professor of psychology at Johns Hopkins University, and also as lecturer at the New School for Social Research. In addition to Behaviorism he authored Psychology From the Standpoint of a Behaviorist. Gregory A. Kimble is professor of psychology emeritus at Duke University. He is the author of Hilgard and Marquis' Conditioning and Learning, "Learning Theory" in the Encyclopedia Britannica, and editor of Foundations of Conditioning and Learning. He is recipient of the APA Centennial Award for Sustained Contribution to Knowledge Dissemination.

Table of Contents

INTRODUCTION I. WHAT IS BEHAVIORISM? II. HOW TO STUDY HUMAN BEHAVIOR Ill. THE HUMAN BODY Part 1-The structures that make behavior possible. IV. THE HUMANB ODY Part 11-The glands in everyday behavior. V. ARE THERE ANY HUMAN INSTINCTS? Part I-On the subject of talent, tendencies and the inheritance of all so-called 'mental' traits. VI. ARE THERE ANY HUMAN INSTINCTS? Part 11-What the study of the human young teaches us. VII. EMOTIONS Part I-A general survey of the field and some experimental studies. VIII. EMOTIONS Part 11-Further experiments and observations on how we acquire, shift and lose our emotional life. IX. OUR MANUAL HABITS X. TALKING AND THINKING XI. DO WE ALWAYS THINK IN WORDS XII. PERSONALITY