AP PSYCHOLOGY

Detailed explanation-1: -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-2: -Philosophically speaking, behaviourism has its origins in the associationism of the philosopher John Locke (1632–1704). Locke believed that the human being was born as a tabula rasa-that, mentally, a human infant was a blank slate, with no prior knowledge or ideas.

Detailed explanation-3: -The main influences of behaviourist psychology were Ivan Pavlov (1849-1936), Edward Lee Thorndike (1874-1949), John B. Watson (1878-1958), and B.F. Skinner (1904-1990).

Detailed explanation-4: -Behaviorist learning theory emphasizes how people interact with their environment. Over time, these interactions (called “stimuli”) form particular behaviors. John Watson is largely seen as the father of behavioral psychology, though he never claimed to have founded the discipline.

Detailed explanation-5: -Behaviorists believe human beings are shaped entirely by their external environment. If you alter a person’s environment, you will alter his or her thoughts, feelings, and behavior. The system is based on rewards and punishments.