"Behavioral Psychology" Author: (US) John Watson Taiwan Strait Publishing House

This book is a classic masterpiece by John Watson, the president of the American Psychological Association. Behavioral psychology is one of the main schools of modern American psychology and one of the schools that has a great influence on Western psychology. It was born in the United States in the early 20th century. The significance of its birth was a psychological revolution aimed at the defects of the Wundt school theory. Behavioral psychology is contrary to traditional psychology and advocates the study of human behavior itself, which has a profound influence. The author believes that the object of psychological research is not consciousness but behavior, and advocates the study of the relationship between behavior and environment. From then on, the research method of psychology abandoned the introspection method and replaced it with the experimental method and observation method commonly used in natural science. He played a huge role in making psychology objective and had a profound impact on American psychology.

John Broadus Watson (1878-1958) was born on January 9, 1878 in Travers Rest near Greenville, South Carolina, USA. He is a famous American psychologist and the founder of behaviorism psychology. At the age of 25, he served as the director of the psychology laboratory at the University of Chicago. At the age of 35, he founded behaviorism psychology, which caused a lasting revolution in psychology in the early 20th century. In 1915, he was elected president of the American Psychological Association. Watson's main research areas include behaviorism psychology theory and practice, emotional conditioning and animal psychology. He was the first person in the United States to use Barthel's research results as the basis of learning theory. He believed that the object of psychological research is not consciousness but behavior, and advocated the study of the relationship between behavior and environment. The research method of psychology must abandon the introspection method and replace it with the experimental method and observation method commonly used in natural science. He played a huge role in the objectification of psychology and had a significant impact on American psychology.