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  1. Sep 21, 2024 · John B. Watson, American psychologist who codified and publicized behaviorism, which, in his view, was restricted to the objective, experimental study of the relations between environmental events and human behavior.

  2. John Broadus Watson (January 9, 1878 – September 25, 1958) was an American psychologist who popularized the scientific theory of behaviorism, establishing it as a psychological school. [2] Watson advanced this change in the psychological discipline through his 1913 address at Columbia University , titled Psychology as the ...

  3. Sep 3, 2024 · John B. Watson is widely recognized as the founder of behaviorism, a school of thought that revolutionized the field of psychology in the early 20th century. J.B. Watson’s contribution to behaviorism was multifaceted.

  4. Mar 21, 2023 · John B. Watson was a pioneering psychologist who played an important role in developing behaviorism. He is remembered for his research on the conditioning process. Watson is also known for the Little Albert experiment, in which he demonstrated that a child could be conditioned to fear a previously neutral stimulus.

  5. John B. Watson is best known as the founder of behaviorism, a school of thought in psychology that emphasizes the study of observable behavior rather than mental processes. Born in 1878, Watson contributed greatly to our understanding of human behavior through his groundbreaking research and theories.

  6. Sep 20, 2023 · John B. Watson was an American psychologist, researcher and author who played a crucial role in the development of behaviorism. In a 2002 report, the Review of General Psychology ranked Watson as the 17th most eminent psychologist of the 20th century.

  7. Jan 22, 2001 · One of the most interesting of these characters was psychologist John Broadus Watson. Born in Greenville, S.C., Watson earned his doctorate from the University of Chicago in 1902, studying under Hopkins alumnus John Dewey.

  8. May 18, 2020 · John B. Watson (1878–1958) was one of the best-known psychologists of the early 20 th century and one of the most influential psychologists of his generation (Buckley, 1989).

  9. Jan 1, 2022 · John Broadus Watson was born in 1878 on a farm near Greenville, South Carolina. He earned a master’s degree in 1899 at Furman University in Greenville and went on to the prestigious University of Chicago, where he became the youngest recipient of a PhD and remained as an instructor.

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    Jan 1, 2021 · John Broadus Watson (1878–1958), a comparative psychologist, is considered as the person who tried to divert researchers’ attention from introspection toward a behavioral understanding of the world, and he was the first who introduced the term “Behaviorism” (Rakos 2013).