... result in giving a person the ability to make better choices for themselves. A major aspect of psychology called behaviorism developed from research on learning. The American psychologist John B. Watson introduced behaviorism in 1913; he felt psychologists should study only observable behavior rather than states of consciousness or thought processes. He believed that changes in a subject's behavior result from ... behaviorism, reference to mental events (such as an animal's beliefs or desires) adds nothing to what psychology can and should understand about the sources of behavior. John W...

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... school of psychology primarily involved with learning and behaviors. In fact, the basic idea of behaviorism is that behaviors are learned, and learned through mode of conditioning. John B. Watson, founder of the school, Watson and other famous behaviorist, B.F. Skinner, qualified that behavior can be studied and measured through observations. They also disregarded the aspect of the involvement of any cognitions or emotions ... ...

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... led by Edward B. Titchener (Gen, 2013). Instead of focusing on the elements of consciousness, functionalists focused on the purpose of consciousness and behavior. In 1913, John B. Watson proposed an alternative: classical S-R behaviorism. According to Watson, behavior was a subject matter in its own right, to be studied by the observational methods common to all sciences (Moore, 2011). The last school of thought is ... ...

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... . Functionalism concentrated on what the mind does and how behavior functions, rather than on the mind's components. Another perspective of psychology was the Behavioral perspective. Behaviorism was founded by Watson in the 1920s. Watson believed that one could gain a complete understanding of behavior by studying and changing the environment in which people lived in. B.F. Skinner and he looked for reinforcement patterns. Gestalt ... ...

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... is not nearly as strong as it once was, but he has had a great impact on the popular culture. John B. Watson looked at the study of psychology as defined by the structuralists and functionalists and disliked virtually everything he saw. In Watson's view the study of mental processes, the concepts of mind and consciousness, and the primary investigative technique of introspection were ... ...

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... . During conditioning the dog was presented with food pairing with the ringing of the bell it salivated. After conditioning, only the ringing of the bell made the dog produce salivation. Watson and Rayner (1920) also demonstrated this type of conditioning when they tried to condition "Little Albert" by pairing a loud noise to a white rat. "Little Albert" soon ... ...

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... them to develop penis envy. Behaviorisms are theoretical orientations based on the premise that scientific psychology should study only observable behavior (Weiten, 2001, p. 499). Following in the tradition of John Watson's radical behaviorism, Skinner showed little to no interest about what may go on "inside" of a person. Skinner said that it was useless to speculate about things that were ... ...

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... things differently, everyone learns and acts differently as well. This theory claims that personalities are what they are based on each individuals personal experiences (Feist & Feist, 2009). Skinner, Bandura and Watson all believed that learning is what primarily influenced a person's behavior. Bandura believed that people learned behavior by watching the actions of others. Behaviorists believe that as people learn they change ... ...

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... . From Freud's studies was born the many different psychological schools of thoughts. Behaviorism, Cognitive Psychology, Developmental Psychology, Functionalism, Gestalt Psychology, Humanistic Psychology, Psychoanalytical Psychology, and Structuralism. Behaviorism, discovered by John B. Watson, is the psychology of studying human behavior. There are two types of condition associated with behaviorism. The first one, classical conditioning, is when a new stimulus is paired with an already ... ...

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