AP PSYCHOLOGY

LEARNING

HOW WE LEARN AND CLASSICAL CONDITIONING

Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
The work of Ivan Pavlov and John Watson fits best into which of psychology’s perspectives?
A
Humanism
B
Gestalt psychology
C
Trait theory
D
Behaviorism
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -Behaviourist psychology should concern itself with the observable behaviour of people and animals, not with unobservable events that take place in their minds. The main influences of behaviourist psychology were Ivan Pavlov (1849-1936), Edward Lee Thorndike (1874-1949), John B. Watson (1878-1958), and B.F.

Detailed explanation-2: -It’s into behaviors and behaviorism.

Detailed explanation-3: -Ivan Pavlov may not have set out to change the face of psychology, but his work had a profound and lasting influence on the science of the mind and behavior. His discovery of classical conditioning helped establish the school of thought known as behaviorism.

Detailed explanation-4: -Ivan Pavlov and John B. Watson developed classical conditioning, the learning theory that suggests that the pairing of stimuli explains behavior.

Detailed explanation-5: -Pavlov’s work with conditional reflexes was extremely influential in the field of behaviorism. His experiments demonstrate three major tenets of the field of behaviorism: Behavior is learned from the environment.

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