AP PSYCHOLOGY

Detailed explanation-1: -Behaviorism is an area of psychological study that focuses on observing and analyzing how controlled environmental changes affect behavior. The goal of behavioristic teaching methods is to manipulate the environment of a subject-a human or an animal-in an effort to change the subject’s observable behavior.

Detailed explanation-2: -John B. Watson was a pioneering psychologist who played an important role in developing behaviorism. Watson believed that psychology should primarily be scientific observable behavior.

Detailed explanation-3: -The primary tenet of behaviourism is that psychology should concern itself with the observable behaviour of people and animals, not with unobservable events that take place in their minds. The behaviourists criticized the mentalists for their inability to demonstrate empirical evidence to support their claims.

Detailed explanation-4: -Two key personalities in early behaviorism are Ivan Pavlov and Edward Thorndike. The name Pavlov may ring a bell… no pun intended. A Russian psychologist famous for his dog experiments, Ivan Pavlov was a major character in the development of behaviorism.