Contributors to Behaviorism
There were many influences and trends in research leading to the emergence of behaviorism as a separate school of thought? Which theorists contributed most significantly to this evolution? Why?
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Behaviorism is mostly used in psychology. The theorists that contributed to the theory are B.F. Skinner, Ivan Pavlov and John B. Watson. Pavlov influenced this theory by his theory of classical conditioning. He did an experiment using dogs, he realized that dogs salivated every…
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