Behavioral Psychology!
Behavioral psychology started in the 1900s and still continues today. Behaviorists observe facts and behaviors and analyze how organisms learn or modify their behavior based on their response to events in the environment. Strengths of Behavioral Psychology includes how people train other people to do certain things this way they are able to control themselves and their actions as well. Strengths are based on observations, this helps it to quantify, collect data and information when conducting a research. Its also useful in changing bad and harmful behaviors in people. Some weakness of Behavioral psychology are that the experiments conducted could not be very effective or something could go wrong. Other weaknesses include not influencing the moods, thoughts and feelings a person may be having. People and animals may be able to adapt to their behaviors with new information, but this may cause their behaviors to change.
Behavioral psychology started in the 1900s and still continues today. Behaviorists observe facts and behaviors and analyze how organisms learn or modify their behavior based on their response to events in the environment. Strengths of Behavioral Psychology includes how people train other people to do certain things this way they are able to control themselves and their actions as well. Strengths are based on observations, this helps it to quantify, collect data and information when conducting a research. Its also useful in changing bad and harmful behaviors in people. Some weakness of Behavioral psychology are that the experiments conducted could not be very effective or something could go wrong. Other weaknesses include not influencing the moods, thoughts and feelings a person may be having. People and animals may be able to adapt to their behaviors with new information, but this may cause their behaviors to change.
Important Behaviorists!
B.F. Skinner: Founder of Behaviorism
-Introduced the concept of reinforcement
John B. Watson:
-Stated that all behaviors are a result of conditioning
Ivan Pavlov: Russian Psychologist
-Tested the dog salivating experiment
B.F. Skinner: Founder of Behaviorism
-Introduced the concept of reinforcement
John B. Watson:
-Stated that all behaviors are a result of conditioning
Ivan Pavlov: Russian Psychologist
-Tested the dog salivating experiment
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