However, the popularity of behaviorism did not last very long. ... The most important antecedent of behaviorism was animal psychology. ... Behaviorism occurred in three stages, the first was Watson's behaviorism, which has been discussed at the greatest length. ... These stages date from 1930 to the end of behaviorism. ... In the decade before the founding of behaviorism by John B. ...
There are many different types of school of thought: functionalism, structuralism, behaviorism, psychoanalysis, and humanism, cognitive, biological, and evolutionary. ... Structuralism was most severely criticized for its primary method, introspection. As structuralism was losing its influence in the United States, a new school of psychology called functionalism was taking place. ... This new school of psychology was called behaviorism. ... Behaviorism soon became the most influential school of thought in American psychology and remained so until the 1960s. ...
