NEW232Y1 Study Guide - Final Guide: Brahmin, Anger, Shravasti

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An approach to human behavior very diferent from psychoanalyic approaches. Causes of behavior to be found in the environment rather than within the individual. Avoids mentalisic concepts or referrals to consciousness, mind, awareness. Psychology is viewed as the science of behavior, not the science of mind. Rooted in the study of animal behavior. John watson considered to be the founder of behaviorism. Psychology as the behaviorist views it is a purely objecive natural science. Its theoreical goal is the predicion and control of behavior. Introspecion forms no essenial part of its methods, nor is the scieniic value of its data dependent upon the readiness with which they led themselves to interpretaions in terms of consciousness. The behaviorist, in his atempts to get a unitary scheme of animal response, recognizes no dividing line between man and brute. The behavior of man, with all of its reinement and complexity, forms only part of the behaviorist"s total scheme of invesigaion. (1913).