AP PSYCHOLOGY

Detailed explanation-1: -Simply put, strict behaviorists believe that all behaviors are the result of experience. Any person, regardless of their background, can be trained to act in a particular manner given the right conditioning. From about 1920 through the mid-1950s, behaviorism became the dominant school of thought in psychology.

Detailed explanation-2: -Methodological behaviorism: John B. Watson’s behaviorism states that only public events (motor behaviors of an individual) can be objectively observed. Although it was still acknowledged that thoughts and feelings exist, they were not considered part of the science of behavior.

Detailed explanation-3: -Behaviorism focuses on the idea that all behaviors are learned through interaction with the environment. This learning theory states that behaviors are learned from the environment, and says that innate or inherited factors have very little influence on behavior.

Detailed explanation-4: -Early behaviorists asserted that, in order for psychology to be a respected, valid science, only objective and observable behavior should be examined. The early behaviorists gave way in large part to the more inclusive learning theorists who came later, but strict behaviorism was the dominant theory in the early 1900s.