?What Is Behaviorism

Behaviorism can perhaps be best summed up by the following quote from the famous psychologist John B. Watson:

"Give me a dozen healthy infants, well-formed, and my own specified world to bring them up in and I'll guarantee to take any one at random and train him to become any type of specialist I might select -- doctor, lawyer, artist, merchant-chief and, yes, even beggar-man and thief, regardless of his talents, penchants, tendencies, abilities, vocations, and race of his ancestors."
 

 --John Watson, Behaviorism, 1930 

John B. Watson is often considered the father of behaviorism.

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