By: Sabrina Julia, and KristinaJOHN WATSON

Born in 1878 in Greenville, South Carolina where he grew up on a farm.

His dad drank, and was very violent, and left when John was 13.

This influenced John to be more violent.He went to the University of Chicago at the age of 16

and got a pHD in psychology.He became a professor of psychology at John Hopkins

University.

BACKGROUND

Watson believed that behavior is just the response to stimuli so he thought he could manipulate people’s emotions.

In the Little Albert Experiment Watson associated a rat with a loud noise to cause him to fear the rat.

He wanted to condition and control the emotions of human subjects.

BEHAVIORISM- HIS THEORY

Watson’s teacher Gordon Moore helped him become less violent and turn his life around.

His theory was diff erent because he disagreed with Freud.

He was inspired by the work of Ivan Pavlov.Albert, his subject in the Little Albert Experiment.

MAJOR PEOPLE INVOLVED

1878- Steel and iron being produced rapidly.At the time people believed every scientific theory

was 100% true.People were very wealthy. In psychology a lot of people were introspectionists,

looking more at the conciousness and not the behavior.

Behaviorism was seen as more credible than scientists do today.

HISTORICAL, CULTURAL, AND SOCIAL CONTEXT

With the Little Albert experiment he will always be scared of rats.

Throughout his experiments Watson created a response to certain triggers in the human brain, which will continue on I a persons life.

No matter what age or stage of life you are in your behavior is your response to stimuli.

CONTINUING DEVELOPMENT THEORY

The study of introspection declined and the study of behaviorism flourished.

Many developments occurred in understanding how people learn.

It foreshadows Skinner’s ban on appeals to the inner (central nervous) processes.

He is pretty much the father of Behaviorism.

CONTRIBUTIONS TO SOCIETY

“Give me a dozen healthy infants, well-formed, and my own specified world to bring them up in and I'll guarantee to take any one at random and train him to become any type of specialist I might select” John Watson

Behaviorism (1924)The Psychological Care of an Infant and Child (1928)Psychology as the Behaviorist Views It (1914)Psychology from the Standpoint of a Behaviorist

(1919)

PUBLISHED WORKS

“Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy.” Behaviorism. N.p., n.d. Web. 13 Sept. 2013.

“John B. Watson.” Psychology History. N.p., n.d. Web. 13 Sept. 2013

“John Watson.” PBS. PBS, n.d. Web 13 Sept. 2013.

WORKS CITED