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	John B. Watson - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		John Broadus Watson (born January 9, 1878 near Greenville, South Carolina; died September 25, 1958 in New York City) was an American psychologist who established the psychological school of behaviorism.
		Watson rekindled the nature-nurture discussion by adopting a strong tabula rasa stance: he believed that children had no inborn tendencies, but rather were shaped by their environments.
		Watson was asked to leave the faculty position he held at Johns Hopkins University because he was having an affair with a student,, whom he married after divorcing his wife (sister of Harold L. Ickes).
	www.bonneylake.us /project/wikipedia/index.php/John_Broadus_Watson (434 words)

	John B. Watson: Dictionary definition
		John B. Watson (1878-1958) was an American Psychologist who established the psychological school of behaviorism.
		Watson was asked to leave the faculty position he held at Johns Hopkins University because he was having an affair with a student, and subsequently began working for J. Walter Thompson, an advertising agency[?].
		Watson has become immortalized in introductory psychology textbooks for his attempts to condition fear of a white rat into "Little Albert", a 9 month old boy.
	www.encyclopedian.com /jo/John-Watson-(psychologist).html (258 words)

	Classics in the History of Psychology -- Commentary on Watson (1913) by R.H. Wozniak
		Watson was not the first to use objective, experimental methods in the study of behavior or to criticize psychology's use of the concept of "consciousness" or the method of introspection (Wozniak, 1993).
		Indeed, Watson himself was a "behavior man" long before he was a "behaviorist," and his manifesto was prompted at least in part by the striking contrast that he perceived between the objective nature of available behavioral methods and the then prevalent ideology of an introspective psychology defined as the science of consciousness.
		In principle at least, psychologists might have been able to extract themselves from the horns of their dilemma by acting as scientists are supposed to act in the face of divergent opinion; they might have let the data decide.
	psychclassics.yorku.ca /Watson/commentary.htm (3354 words)

	Watson (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		John's father, with whom he was closer, did not follow the same rules of living as his mother.
		John was able to turn his life back around with the help of his teacher, Gordon Moore, at Furman University.
		In 1913 at Columbia University, Watson delivered a lecture entitled "Psychology as the Behaviorist Views It." Before this speech the field of psychology was in disagreement over the ideas of the nature of consciousness and the methods of studying it.
	vygotsky.sfasu.edu /Courses/psy503/Watson.html (1756 words)

	Watson
		Watson knew, as all psychologists do, that a theoretical perspective will be no more influential than the productivity of its methods, and in a section of some fifty pages, he offered students a methodological handbook for the new behaviorism.
		John Broadus Watson was born near Greenville, South Carolina in 1878.
		Watson, J.B. Psychology from the standpoint of a behaviorist.
	www.brynmawr.edu /Acads/Psych/rwozniak/watson2.html (2994 words)

	Behaviorism
		Watson was by no means the first to criticize psychology's use of the concept of "consciousness" or the method of introspection; his was not even the first attempt to rid psychology of "consciousness" altogether or to argue the case against all use of introspection[11].
		Watson was not the first to use objective, experimental methods in the study of behavior[12], or to propose a unitary scheme for the investigation of animal and human response.
		This view, which originated with Watson's desire to place the study of animal behavior high on the psychological research agenda,[43] was reinforced by psychology's early success in extending trial-and-error and conditioning analyses from animals to humans.
	www.brynmawr.edu /Acads/Psych/rwozniak/behaviorism.html (4560 words)

	John Broadus Watson, I-O Psychologist TIP April 2000 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Watson 1907), sensory psychology (Watson, 1909a) to behavioral psychology (Watson and Rayner, 1920).
		Watson further commented that there was not a "mental test" that would be able to detect whether or not a man is a liar— whether he is able to work in cooperation with other individuals and the like.
		Watson was one of the most prominent psychologist scientist/practitioners of his era, writing on applied psychology for academic journals, business publications, and popular magazines; however, much of this work is overshadowed by his earlier prominence in experimental psychology and behaviorism.
	www.siop.org /tip/backissues/TipApril00/7Diclemente.htm (3076 words)

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		Johns Hopkins' increasing indifference to its psychology department and the poor economic conditions at that institution resulting from the Great Depression were major causes for Dunlap's move to UCLA.
		Watson was not initially impressed with Dunlap, but he soon came to recognize Dunlap's abilities and calling him the "best second man" of any psychology department.
		He was often highly critical of Watson, especially when it came to the latter's ultimate complete rejection of the role of cognition in psychology.
	www.ecsu.ctstateu.edu /personal/faculty/kornfeld/dunlap.htm (1935 words)

	Watson, John B. -- Encyclopædia Britannica
		Watson, John B. American psychologist who codified and publicized behaviourism, an approach to psychology that, in his view, was restricted to the objective, experimental study of the relations between environmental events and human behaviour.
		Skinner, B.F. American psychologist and an influential exponent of behaviourism, which views human behaviour in terms of physiological responses to the environment and favours the controlled, scientific study of response as the most direct means of elucidating man's nature.
		In behaviourist psychology, derived primarily from work of the American psychologist John B. Watson in the early 1900s, the concept of consciousness was irrelevant to the objective investigation of human behaviour and was doctrinally...
	www.britannica.com /eb/article?tocId=9076286 (885 words)

	Lefalophodon: John B. Watson (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		American psychologist and founder of the behaviorist movement, which emphasized rigorous laboratory experimentation and argued that instincts were unimportant, behavior patterns were learned by rote association, and consciousness could not be defined or studied objectively.
		Watson's emphasis on rigor and experimentation followed his teacher Loeb, but Loeb's own psychological research was on tropisms, which did not fit easily into the behaviorist paradigm.
		Watson's approach in psychology was mirrored by Boas' school of cultural determinism in anthropology, and therefore opposed the rigid hereditarian views that underpinned the American eugenics movement.
	www.nceas.ucsb.edu /~alroy/lefa/Watson.html (200 words)

	John Broadus Watson
		John Broadus Watson and Psychology from the Standpoint of a Behaviorist
		John B. Watson (1878-1958) was born near Greenville, South Carolina in 1878.
		Watson emphasized external and peripheral factors at the expense of internal and central ones; he sought broad generalizations across individuals and species; his approach was holistic and dynamic...his goals were [those of] experimental control and engineering." [7]
	www.brynmawr.edu /Acads/Psych/rwozniak/watson.html (3282 words)

	AllRefer.com - John Broadus Watson (Psychology And Psychiatry, Biography) - Encyclopedia
		Watson emphasized the study of observable behavior, rejecting introspection and theories of the unconscious mind.
		He originated the school of psychology known as behaviorism, in which behavior is described in terms of physiological responses to stimuli.
		Watson's work influenced B. Skinner in his groundbreaking studies of operant conditioning, and had a major impact on the development of behavior therapy.
	reference.allrefer.com /encyclopedia/W/Watson-JB.html (221 words)

	The Johns Hopkins Gazette: January 22, 2001
		Watson was married to Mary Ickes, daughter of a prominent family, and fell in love with Rosalie Rayner, one of his graduate students.
		Watson dutifully complied, then casually asked Goodnow what reason he should give in the future if he were asked about his dismissal.
		Watson died in 1958, at the age of 80, many years after the death of Rosalie in 1935, when she was only 36.
	www.jhu.edu /~gazette/2001/jan2201/22watson.html (670 words)

	Introduction
		John Broadus Watson is known as a ‘Founder of Behaviorism.’ The major contribution of John B. Watson in psychology is his redefinition of psychology from the science of the mind to the science of behavior.
		Though Watson’s research and theoretical contributions are controversial, his study of behaviorism laid foundation for today’s psychology and its application to the world of advertising (Top-psychology 2001).
		Watson’s work was to help rationalize the advertising process, but at the same time, spoke directly to the admirers of science, legitimating a reality in which decision making based upon “scientific” methods assumed a role of prominence (Kreshel 1990).
	www.ciadvertising.org /SA/fall_02/adv382j/khkim05/practitioner/introduction.htm (352 words)

	John B. Watson
		Watson assumed that it was by one, and only one, of their senses, May seem naive, but there were few studies in the field.
		Psychologists could become social engineers, guiding society "to ways in which the individual could be molded to fit the environment." Was interested by particular psychoanalytic tools like word association tests which could allow one to trace the orgins and precise nature of the twisted habits.
		Watson and Rosalie were happy and affectionate and he was completely faithul to her.
	www.sonoma.edu /users/d/daniels/Watson.html (5589 words)

	John Watson - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		John Watson, race car driver for McLaren who won the 1981 British Grand Prix at Silverstone [1]
		Senator John Watson is the longest-serving member of the Australian Senate.
		John Watson, M.D., fictional sidekick of Sherlock Holmes
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/John_Watson (138 words)

	Psychologist John Watson
		John Watson was born in South Carolina in 1878 and grew up on a farm...
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	A Science Odyssey: People and Discoveries: John Watson
		Watson claimed to have been unruly and a poor student as a youngster, and by all accounts he seemed destined to follow his father's model of violence and recklessness.
		It was new because Watson disagreed with Freud and found the latter's views on human behavior philosophical to the point of mysticism.
		Watson's research on animals and children was interrupted by World War I. He served as a psychologist, but came away with a distaste for the military.
	www.pbs.org /wgbh/aso/databank/entries/bhwats.html (366 words)

	Classics in the History of Psychology -- Watson (1913)
		Should human psychologists fail to look with favor upon our overtures and refuse to modify their position, the behaviorists will be driven to using human beings as subjects and to employ methods of investigation which are exactly comparable to those now employed in the animal work.
		We are not interested (as psychologists) in getting all of the processes of adjustment which the animal as a whole employs, and in finding how these various responses are associated, and how they fall apart, thus working out a systematic scheme for the prediction and control of response in general.
		It is rather interesting that no functional psychologist has carefully distinguished between 'perception' (and this is true of the other psychological terms as well) as employed by the systematist, and cperceptual process' as used in functional psychology.
	psychclassics.yorku.ca /Watson/views.htm (7010 words)

	MSN Encarta - Search Results - John Watson (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Watson, John Broadus (1878-1958), American psychologist, born in Greenville, South Carolina, and educated at Furman University and the University of...
		Watson, Thomas John (1874-1956), American industrialist, born in Campbell, New York, and educated at the Elmira School of Commerce.
		The American Revolution (1775-1783) coincided with the rise of independent fl congregations in the North, where slavery would be largely abolished...
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	John B. Watson \| American Psychologist \| Established Psychological School of Behaviorism \| Questia.com Online Library
		II "Experimental Studies on the Growth of the Emotions" by John B. Watson, and Chap.
		Watsons understanding of evolution is well...perhaps not coincidental that John B.
		John B. Watson at J. Walter Thompson: The Legitimation of "Science" in Advertising, in Journal of Advertising
	www.questia.com /library/psychology/psychologists/john-b-watson.jsp (679 words)

	John B. Watson
		He studied at Chicago, and became professor of psychology at Johns Hopkins University (1908-20), where he established an animal research laboratory.
		Watson was followed in the behaviorist school of psychology by B.F. Skinner; also see his contemporary Edward Thorndike.
		I wonder if Watson's going into the advertising business was an inspirational factor in Aldous Huxley's writing of Brave New World ten years later.
	userwww.sfsu.edu /~rob/WatsonB.html (112 words)

	Behaviorism - by John Watson - Consciousness and the soul are archaic and useless concepts
		Watson is another behaviorist who views Man as an animal, subject to the same laws of stimulus-response that he observes in his animal experiments.
		It is essential to understand Watson and other behaviorists to grasp where the current unworkable and basically degrading theories and methods of pseudo-scientific psychology and psychiatry come from.
		Watson is one theorist of many similar fools spreading the anti-mind, anti-responsibility, and anti-soul view of Man in modern times.
	www.ftrbooks.net /psych/behaviorism/behaviorism.htm (517 words)

	john b watson < The Receiver Hangout (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		John B. John B. Watson (1878-1958) was one of the most well known early psychologists...
		Watson, 1908a, 1909b; Watson and Lashley, 1915), experimental psychology...
		John B. Watson was born in 1878 in a rural community outside Greenville, South Carolina...
	www.skybird.ca /bk-receiver/john-b-watson.html (175 words)

	Behaviorism, John B. Watson, Social Control, Modern Psychology, Governments, and Denial of Man's Mind and Soul
		Watson, the founder of what is known as the behaviorist school of psychology - but is really only research following in the dark shadow of Wundt - believed that complex forms of behavior could be programmed into humans.
		In the late 1930s, Harvard psychologist Burrhus Frederick (B.F.) Skinner, an unapologetic student of Wundt's theories, and a member of U.S. Army intelligence, fine-tuned the art of human control into what he termed "operant conditioning," becoming a guru to generations of mind shapers that followed.
		Although many psychologists today insist that the behaviorist's vision of a controlled world is crude and outdated, and that a docile society cannot be engineered by science, they protest too much.
	www.sntp.net /behaviorism/behaviorism_history.htm (2089 words)

	Dr. Watson Presumes - John Taylor Gatto
		The simple fact is that American psychologists had grown restive under conventional restraints.
		John B. Watson, a fast-buck huckster turned psychologist, issued this warning in 1919: The human creature is purely a stimulus-response machine.
		The notion of consciousness is a "useless and vicious" survival of medieval religious "superstition." Behaviorism does not "pretend to be disinterested psychology," it is "frankly" an applied science.
	www.johntaylorgatto.com /chapters/13j.htm (646 words)

	Behaviorism
		Watson claimed that psychology was not concerned with the mind or with human consciousness.
		Watson's work was based on the experiments of Ivan Pavlov, who had studied animals' responses to conditioning.
		Pavlov believed, as Watson was later to emphasize, that humans react to stimuli in the same way.
	www.forerunner.com /forerunner/X0497_DeMar_-_Behaviorism.html (902 words)

	Behaviorism, John B. Watson, Social Control, Modern Psychology, Governments, and Denial of Man's Mind and Soul
		Following Thorndike came John B. Watson, who is often referred to as the true father of behaviorism.
		Watson had gotten his Ph.D. at the University of Chicago in 1903 under James R. Angell and John Dewey.
		Watson, who is representative of the views of all modern behaviorists, clearly admits his concern is with animal behavior.
	www.sntp.net /behaviorism.htm (1618 words)

	Classics in the History of Psychology -- Watson (1920)
		Watson refers to the prior papers -- by Bartlett and Smith, Thommson, Pear, and Robinson -- but fortunately briefly describes each position as he responds to it.
		Pear and nearly all other psychologists fall, viz., if any part of the process is beyond the range of the bystander's immediate observation he, the bystander, has the right to assume that something unusually interesting and mysterious may go on at the unobserved points.
		In our seminary at Johns Hopkins University during the past year we went over the various formulations of meaning of the psychologists and philosophers.
	psychclassics.yorku.ca /Watson/thinking.htm (6736 words)

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