GROWTH DEVELOPMENT CHILD
FREUDS PERSONALITY THEORY
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behaviorism
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contingencies of reinforcement
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humanistic psychology
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self-actualization
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Detailed explanation-1: -Championed by psychologists such as John B. Watson (1878–1958) and B. F. Skinner (1904–1990), behaviorism rejected any reference to mind and viewed overt and observable behavior as the proper subject matter of psychology.
Detailed explanation-2: -According to behaviorism, the proper subject matter of psychology is the behavior which we can observe, not the processes it which cannot be directly observed. The name of this approach in psychology actually represents the subject of their research.
Detailed explanation-3: -According to Edward B. Titchener, the proper subject matter for psychology is the human mind or consciousness. To be more precise, Titchener focuses on examining the structure of human consciousness through introspection.
Detailed explanation-4: -Watson and B. F. Skinner rejected introspectionist methods as being subjective and unquantifiable. Instead, they focused on objectively observable, quantifiable events and behavior.
Detailed explanation-5: -1 According to Watson, psychology should be the science of observable behavior.