Chapter 10: The Beginnings of Behaviorism

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Chapter 10 The Beginnings of Behaviorism
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John Broadus Watson (1878-1958)

• Give me a dozen healthy infants, well-formed,
  and my own specified world to bring them up and
  Ill guarantee to take any one at random and
  train him to become any type of specialist I
  might selectdoctor, lawyer, merchant-chief, and
  yes, even beggar man and thief, regardless of his
  talents, penchants, tendencies, abilities,
  vocations, and race of his ancestors. (1930
    John B. Watson)
• Greenville, SC
• Fuhrman University
• University of Chicago
• Johns Hopkins

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Rosalie Rayner
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Subjects of Behaviorism

• Instincts
• Emotions
• Thoughts

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Criticisms

• Edwin Holt (1873-1946)
• Karl Lashley (1890-1958)
• Law of mass action the efficiency of learning
  is a function of the total mass of cortical
  tissue
• Equipotentiality the idea that one part of the
  cerebral cortex is essentially equal to another
  in its contribution to learning.
• William McDougall
• The Battle for Behaviorism

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