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John Broadus Watson (January 9, 1878 – September 25, 1958) was an American psychologist who established the psychological school of behaviorism. Watson promoted a change in psychology through his address Psychology as the Behaviorist Views it, which was given at Columbia University in 1913. Through his behaviorist approach, Watson conducted research on animal behavior, child rearing, and advertising. In addition, he conducted the controversial "Little Albert" experiment. He was also editor of Psychological Review from 1910 to 1915.

US psychologist John Watson (1878-1958) was the first psychologist in the University of Chicago. He had doubts about the introspective method at that time widely employed in psychology, and was among the founders of Behavioralism . He was a trainee of functionalist James Angell , his biography is full of personal and professional changes (from elementary to advertising master). PSICOLOGARE Talk about psychology to divulge psychological sciences - © 2015 Added by Janet Milburn John B. Watson is your 12th cousin thrice removed.

John B. Watson AMERICAN PSYCHOLOGIST WRITTEN BY: The Editors of Encyclopædia Britannica See Article History Alternative Title: John Broadus Watson John B. Watson AMERICAN PSYCHOLOGIST ALSO KNOWN AS John Broadus Watson BORN January 9, 1878 Greenville, South Carolina DIED September 25, 1958 (aged 80) New York City, New York NOTABLE WORKS “Behavior: An Introduction to Comparative Psychology” “Psychology from the Standpoint of a Behaviorist” “Behaviorism” “Psychological Care of Infant and Child” SUBJECTS OF STUDY infancy conditioning VIEW BIOGRAPHIES RELATED TO CATEGORIES psychology DATES January 9 September 25

RELATED BIOGRAPHIES William James Neal E. Miller Edwin Ray Guthrie Edward C. Tolman Edward L. Thorndike Robert M. Yerkes Sigmund Freud Kenneth Wartinbee Spence B.F. Skinner Clark L. Hull John B. Watson, in full John Broadus Watson (born January 9, 1878, Travelers Rest, near Greenville, South Carolina, U.S.—died September 25, 1958, New York, New York), American psychologist who codified and publicized behaviourism, an approach to psychology that, in his view, was restricted to the objective, experimental study of the relations between environmental events and human behaviour. Watsonian behaviourism became the dominant psychology in the United States during the 1920s and ’30s.

Watson received a Ph.D. in psychology from the University of Chicago (1903), where he then taught. In 1908 he became professor of psychology at Johns Hopkins University and immediately established a laboratory for research in comparative, or animal, psychology. He articulated his first statements on behaviourist psychology in the epoch-making article “Psychology as a Behaviorist Views It” (1913), claiming that psychology is the science of human behaviour, which, like animal behaviour, should be studied under exacting laboratory conditions.

His first major work, Behavior: An Introduction to Comparative Psychology, was published in 1914. In it he argued forcefully for the use of animal subjects in psychological study and described instinct as a series of reflexes activated by heredity. He also promoted conditioned responses as the ideal experimental tool. In 1918 Watson ventured into the relatively unexplored field of infant study. In one of his classic experiments—and one of the most controversial in the history of psychology—he conditioned fear of white rats and other furry objects in “Little Albert,” an orphaned 11-month-old boy. (Identifying Little Albert...................According to some textbooks, Albert's mother worked in the same building as Watson and didn't know the tests were being conducted. When she found out, she took Albert and moved away, letting anyone know where they were going. A 2009 report, however, disputes that. The original report had stated that the baby's mother was a wet nurse at the hospital, who may have felt coerced and unable to turn down a request for her baby to be used in Watson's experiment. Wikipedia~ Whichever it was I wonder if it had anything to do with his wife divorcing him ~ Janet Milburn 10/2/17)

The definitive statement of Watson’s position appears in another major work, Psychology from the Standpoint of a Behaviorist (1919), in which he sought to extend the principles and methods of comparative psychology to the study of human beings and staunchly advocated the use of conditioning in research. His association with academic psychology ended abruptly. In 1920, in the wake of sensational publicity surrounding his divorce from his first wife, Watson resigned from Johns Hopkins. He entered the advertising business in 1921.

Watson’s book Behaviorism (1925), for the general reader, is credited with interesting many in entering professional psychology. Following Psychological Care of Infant and Child (1928) and his revision (1930) of Behaviorism, Watson devoted himself exclusively to business until his retirement in 1946. Added by Janet Milburn John B. Watson is your 12th cousin thrice removed.