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- | Behaviorism is a learning paradigm with its roots dating back to the second half of 19th century and works of [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ivan_Sechenov|Ivan Sechenov]] (1829 - 1905) and [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vladimir_Bekhterev|Vladimir Bekhterev]] (1857 - 1927), and gaining a significant attention in the **first decades of the 20th century**. The most central premise of behaviorism is that, in order to make psychology a real science, it must be orientated on what is **observable** and **measurable**. In words of one of the key behaviorists [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_B._Watson|John Watson]], | + | Behaviorism is a learning paradigm with its roots dating back to the second half of 19th century and works of [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ivan_Sechenov|Ivan Sechenov]] (1829 - 1905) and [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vladimir_Bekhterev|Vladimir Bekhterev]] (1857 - 1927), and gaining a significant attention in the **first decades of the 20th century**. The most central premise of behaviorism is that, in order to make psychology a real science, it must be orientated on what is **observable** and **measurable**. In words of one of the key behaviorists [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_B._Watson|John Watson]] (1878 - 1958), |
* "//Psychology, as the behaviorist views it, is a purely objective, experimental branch of natural science which needs introspection as little as do the sciences of chemistry and physics. It is granted that the behavior of animals can be investigated without appeal to consciousness.//"(([[http://psychclassics.yorku.ca/Watson/views.htm|Watson, John B. Psychology as the Behaviorist Views it. Psychological Review 20: 158-177. 1913.]])) | * "//Psychology, as the behaviorist views it, is a purely objective, experimental branch of natural science which needs introspection as little as do the sciences of chemistry and physics. It is granted that the behavior of animals can be investigated without appeal to consciousness.//"(([[http://psychclassics.yorku.ca/Watson/views.htm|Watson, John B. Psychology as the Behaviorist Views it. Psychological Review 20: 158-177. 1913.]])) |