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 ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

The following is, for the most part, an excerpt of a book chapter I'm working on for an APA book series: Psychologists have a long history of ignoring (e.g., Koch, 1964), not understanding (e.g., ...