Psychology has many different models and approaches, one of them being behaviorism. Behaviorism began in the early 20th century by John B. Watson. Watson was a driving force for the school of behaviorism, and his approach can be seen in a popular quote: "Give me a dozen healthy infants, well-formed, and my own specified world to bring them up in and I'll guarantee to take any one at random and train him to become any type of specialist I might select--doctor, lawyer, artist, merchant- chief, and yes, even beggar man and thief, regardless of his talents, penchants, tendencies, abilities, vocations, and race of his ancestors" (1924).
Watson's work was inspired by Ivan Pavlov which was a famous Russian physiologist that won a Nobel prize for digestion but the one thing that Pavlov accomplished during his experiments is what we call conditioning. The way he came to realization with "conditioning" is through his experiment of feeding the dogs and the sound of a buzzer. He started......
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