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John B. Watson (1878-1958) was an American psychologist who created the theory of “behaviorism.” His theory was a scientific psychological approach based only on complex behaviors that could be observed. The theory refuted the presence of the mind. Watson believed...
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Konrad Lorenz (1903-1989) was an Austrian zoologist and ethologist. An ethologist studies animal behavior patterns in their natural environment. Lorenz studied animals with a special focus on greylag geese. He discovered that baby geese (goslings) that were...
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Let us look at the historical figures who developed the concept of conditioning. First, I will mention Ivan Pavlov (1849-1936). He was a Russian physician and physiologist who studied digestion in dogs. He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1904....
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Emotionally conditioned reactions are nearly instantaneous. The person responds reflexively and unidimensionally. The reaction is based on unconscious emotional cues. Reality factors are excluded. The person assumes a role that is evoked by the other person in the...
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We usually know how the important people in our lives will behave in a given circumstance. Otherwise our social relations would be more chaotic than they are. The ability of the mind to control anxiety, remarkable though it may be, is not without limits. Each...
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Like it or not, the unconscious lessons a parent delivers are the ones learned by the child. These messages may be inconsistent with what the parent intends to teach. Not only are the messages often incongruent, they may negate one another entirely. The child may...
