John B. Watson - History of Psychology Series

Lecture Topic: History of Psychology – Ep 10 – John B. Watson

In this lecture we will review John B. Watson, the founder of the school of thought called behaviorism. Watson argued that psychic or mental concepts have no value for a science of psychology. Psychology, he insisted, must deal only with the objective study of behavior. Only the most stringently objective methods of investigation were acceptable in the behaviorist’s laboratory. To Watson, these methods included the following: observation with and without the use of instruments; testing methods; the verbal report method; and the conditioned reflex method (Schultz, 2015).

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