Watson Psychology
What are John Watson’s primary critiques of psychology (i.e., the study of consciousness via introspection)? How does he propose to solve these issues? Do you believe that introspection is important in changing behavior? Why or why not?
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Watson proposed to solve this problems through declaring himself as a new psychologist known as the behaviorist and defined psychology as the study of human behavior. He said that if psychologists could use the scientific method and study things that can be observed and measured that all scientists would be able to control the behavior of human beings. Psychologists…
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