[Add to Folder] [Printable Page] Watson, John B. Born : 1878 Died : 1958 Nationality : American Occupation : psychologist RELATED BIOGRAPHIES: • Pavlov, Ivan Petrovich • Skinner, B. F. (Ethics) RELATED ESSAYS: • Ethics in Advertising and Science • Rights of Human Research Participants John Broadus Watson was one of the most controversial leading figures in American psychology. A pioneer in behaviorism, Watson wrote accessible books promoting…

John B. Watson was a great American psychologist whose theories, publications, and experiments had an enduring influence on psychology. Possibly his biggest contributions to psychology were his theory of behaviorism and his experiment on Little Albert. Though Watson’s experiments were extremely unethical and behaviorism doesn’t account for biological psychology, Watson was an extremely remarkable psychologist because of his principal of behaviorism and his findings on classical conditioning. Background…

John B. Watson’s main career was that of a behaviorist with a goal to understand and predicate what factors could be associated to human behavior. Consciousness and the notion of introspection did not interest him which, depicted a man who knew where his passion resided (Hergenhahn & Henley, 2014). However, he did explore the concept of emotions and derived his own views concerning them, in particular their hereditary nature. Watson theorized how emotions are interconnected to external situations…

The Conditioning of Fear John B. Watson was an American psychologist who established behaviorism. He assumed that psychology should study only objective behavior due to the conscience or psyche aspect being difficult to measure. Watson stated that psychology’s “theoretical goal is the prediction and control of behavior” (Clavijo 379). Watson believed that “conditioning procedure” would contribute to analyzing the “conscious” (Hall 186). In other words, behavior is the relationship between thoughts…

` John B Watson In 1878 John B Watson was born to Emma and Pickens Watson. A poor family in Greenville, South Carolina, his mother was very religious. John 's father, with whom he was closer, did not follow the same rules of living as his mother. He drank, had extra-marital affairs, and left in 1891. Eventually John married Mary Ikes whom he met at the University of Chicago. Together they had two children, Mary and John. And, like his father, had affairs with a number of women. John and Mary finally…

Contributions to Psychology During the zeitgeist of Watson’s early career, the focus of psychology was on the analysis of the conscious mind. During the late 1800’s, Sigmund Freud, a leader in psychology at the time, had proposed theories of psychology that focused on the conscious and unconscious mind. He explained behavior as a response to the desires of our unconscious and conscious minds, implying that individuals did not have much control over their behaviors or thoughts. In the early 1900’s, during…

John Broadus Watson was a famous American psychologist who lived between 1878 and 1958. He was born in Greenville, South Carolina to Pickens and Emma Watson and was the fourth of six children. The family was not well off financially and John did not have an easy childhood. In spite of the poverty that engulfed the family, John’s father turned into an alcoholic who cared less for his family. However, Emma, John’s mother was a devoted religious woman who struggled to take care of her children with…

John Gerk Mr. Jiru College Psychology November 25, 2014 John Watson’s life began in Greenville, South Carolina on January 9th 1878 whose parents were Emma and Pickens Watson. His mother Emma was very religious, so religious in fact that she named John after a Baptist minister, but his father on the other hand was not as religious as his wife. His father drank, had multiple affairs, and finally left his wife and son in 1891. During Watson’s childhood he was a student who did poorly in school and got…

Summary One of the most famous American Psychologists, John B. Watson, conducted numerous experiments that helped establish a clearer understanding of how the human brain associates response to certain situations. In one of his more famous experiments, Watson tested the conditioned emotional response of a small child. This child, Albert, was eleven months old and was one of “the most developed youngsters ever brought to the hospital” (Watson, 1). It was noted that he never presented fear in any situation…

Throughout psychology we have learned a variety of experiments that have made an impact toward the field of psychology. One important experiment that was significant in the field was the “Little Albert Experiment” by John B. Watson. John B. Watson was a behaviorist where he wanted to conduct an experiment that further Ivan Pavlov research on classical conditioning. Classical conditioning is a theory engages a new behavior through the process of association. This theory includes three stages of classical…