Behaviorism

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Behaviorism is a school of psychology and theoretical viewpoint that emphasizes the scientific study of observable behaviors, especially as they pertain to the process of learning. That is the text book definition of behaviorism, my definition in my own words is, doing something that causes a response in someone or something, and by doing it enough times causes a constant reaction every time in the person or thing. John Watson founded behaviorism in the early 1900…

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…room some thing bad would happen, she never went into my stuff again. Until reading and fully understanding what the behavioral theory was all about, I never realized how much of our life actually used this theory. I can see why this theory was so dominate in psychology for more then 50 years. Out of all the theories I read about this one relates to me the most and makes the most common sense to me.