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Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
The scientific approach that limits the study of psychology to observable behavior.
A
Humanism
B
Behaviorism
C
Realism
D
Functionalism
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -Behavioral Perspective An approach to the study of psychology that focuses on the role of learning in explaining observable behavior. Behaviorism The school of psychology that holds that psychology should limit itself to the study of overt, observable behavior.

Detailed explanation-2: -Behaviorism is a theory of learning based on the idea that all behaviors are acquired through conditioning, and conditioning occurs through interaction with the environment. Behaviorists believe that our actions are shaped by environmental stimuli.

Detailed explanation-3: -Answer and Explanation: John Watson wrote a seminal paper in 1913 entitled, “Psychology as the Behaviorist Views It.” In this paper, Watson defined psychology as the science of observable behavior.

Detailed explanation-4: -Emerging in contrast to psychodynamic psychology, behaviourism focuses on observable behaviour as a means to studying the human psyche.

Detailed explanation-5: -The Behaviourist approach made a deliberate effort to be scientific, and therefore refused to discuss mental processes that might be involved in learning because they are not observable and could not be studied objectively.

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