John B. Watson believed that if we could control our environment from infancy, we would be able to mold a person into anything we want and that, at birth, our minds are 'blank slates'. He was a behaviorism psychologist, which meant that his work focused more on our behaviors and the fact that our personalities evolve from a systematic method of rewards and punishments, as opposed to Freud's theory that the unconscious is all that drives us.
Behavioral psychology or theory is defined as a theory of learning based upon the idea that all behaviors are acquired through conditioning. Advocated by famous psychologists such as John B. Watson and B.F. Skinner, behavioral theories dominated psychology during the early half of the twentieth century.
Ivan Pavlov, John B. Watson, and Robert Rescorla.
The theory most closely associated with John Locke is the social contract theory, which suggests that individuals in a society agree to give up certain freedoms in exchange for protection of their natural rights by the government. Locke's theories also highlight the importance of consent of the governed and the idea of tabula rasa, or the belief that individuals are born with a blank slate.
An idea is simply a notion, a thought, an explanation that pops into the head. Ideas can be good or bad. In the realm of science, an idea (hopefully good and hopefully logical) is called an hypothesis. Hypotheses are possible explanations for phenomena that need to be tested with experiments (or the gathering of more evidence and data) and need to be 'fitted' with the rest of science fact and theory to see if such a new entry into science makes science a more coherent whole. A hypothesis that is not contradicted by evidence, meets the predictions of an experiment and is useful as a predictor and explainer is promoted to a theory. Darwin's idea of evolution has become a theory by the gathering of fossils and the comparing of anatomy and genomes of many species. Darwin was probably one of the few capable of single-handedly promoting an idea to a theory, given the mountains of evidence he collected. Copernicus' idea of heliocentrism has been confirmed and is now the theory of the structure of the solar system. Rutherford's idea of the structure of atoms has been confirmed and is certainly a theory now - certainly modern atomic sciences would not have advanced this far without it. The Watson-Crick idea of the structure of DNA is a theory these days and was made so by the very experiments of Watson and Crick and Franklin.
The possessive form for the noun theory is theory's.Example: The theory's basis is founded on scientific principles.
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John B. Watson conducted the Little Albert experiment in 1920.
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Yes, John B. Watson was a philosopher, he combined philosophy with psychology and made some of the greatest contributions to psychology.
John B. Watson developed the Behaviorist theory, which asserts that most human behavior is learned through conditioning and reinforcement in a social environment, rather than being instinctive. This theory emphasizes the role of external stimuli in shaping behavior and focuses on observable actions and responses.
Social contagion refers to the spread of emotions, ideas, or behaviors through social networks, while John B. Watson's conditioning theory is based on the idea that behaviors can be learned through stimulus-response associations. While they both involve how behaviors are influenced and spread, social contagion focuses on the spread of behaviors through social interactions, whereas Watson's theory focuses on how behaviors are learned through environmental stimuli.
John Broadus Watson died on September 25, 1958 at the age of 79.
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