John Watson
I was very intrigued by John Watson’s overall appreciation for psychology. His appreciation for the mind and its processes are noteworthy when portraying behaviorism as a prominent part of psychology. His noteworthy findings landed him the title as, “the father of behaviorism”. With his appreciation of the science he was able to develop a school, known as the school of behaviorism. There, through his behaviorist approach, Watson conducted research on animal behavior, child rearing, and advertising. In addition to his research he conducted the controversial experiment known as the “Little Albert”.
He wanted to study the external characteristics of the human mind based on behavior. According to John Watson, psychology should be the science of noticeable behavior. In 1803 he conducted the controversial “little Albert” experiment with a graduate student by the name of Rosalie Rayner. They familiarized a small child to fear a white rat. They consummated this by continually combining the white rat with a lurid, fearsome clanking noise. They also were able to validate that this terror could be universal to other white, hairy objects. After such experiments, Watson set the stage for behaviorism, which soon rose to dominate psychology. His view of behaviorism was considered essential and was known for its risky anti-mentalism, its essential decrease of thinking to implied response, and its dense and somewhat basic dependence on accustomed reactions. Even with all the diverse deviations, they all had one common idea- that psychology was defined as the natural science of behavior, and was a pattern of change functionally reliant on upon stimulus circumstances in the environment, and was accentuated in concept and study (Wozniak). The origin for his study was to improve the logical understanding of what people do. Although his work was short lived, he was the