Psychology As The Behaviorist Views It

By J. Watson. 2011

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Inner Speech: Development, Cognitive Functions, Phenomenology, and Neurobiology (2015, background): “…saw inner speech (which he identified with “thinking”) as resulting from a process of the gradual reduction of self-directed speech: in other words, a purely mechanical process in which speech becomes quieter and quieter until it is first merely a whisper, and then silent thought (Watson, 1913).”
A Cognitive Control Perspective of Self-Control Strength and Its Depletion (2010, background): “Although building on quite different ideas concerning human nature, Freud (1957), Watson (1913), and Skinner (1963) also stressed the habitual, seemingly deterministic nature of social behaviors and responses to incentives (e.g., immediate reward).”
From Speculation to Epistemological Violence in Psychology (2008, background): “J.B. Watson (1913) challenged Wundt’s psychology and argued that a program that defined the subject matter of psychology in terms of the facts of consciousness and applied the method of introspection for identifying these facts would be caught in speculative questions that could not be studied scien”
Protocol Analysis and Expert Thought: Concurrent Verbalizations of Thinking during Experts' Performance on Representative Tasks (2006, background): “To make matters worse, in those rare cases that allowed verification of the strategy by observing the performance, discrepancies were found between the reported strategies and the observations (Watson, 1913).”
Open, aware, and active: contextual approaches as an emerging trend in the behavioral and cognitive therapies. (2011, neutral): “The father of behavioral psychology, John B. Watson, defined behaviorism in opposition to mind as the subject matter of psychology and to introspection as the method of its investigation (Watson 1913; Watson 1924, pp. 2–5).”
Studies of Expertise from Psychological Perspectives (2006, background): “First, like psychology, educational theory and practice was under the sway of behaviorism in and around the mid century (Skinner, 1963; Watson, 1913).”
Principles of Synthetic Intelligence: Psi: An Architecture of Motivated Cognition (2009, background): “Behaviorism, as proposed by John B. Watson (1913) became very infl uential, and in the form of radical behaviorism (Skinner, 1938) not only neglected the nature of mental entities as on object of inquiry, but denied their existence altogether.”
A voxel-wise encoding model for early visual areas decodes mental images of remembered scenes (2014, neutral): “During the Behaviorist era of psychology mental imagery was largely ignored as a topic of research and was in fact argued to be non-existent (Watson, 1913).”
Foreign Language Learning Motivation in Higher Education: A Longitudinal Study of Motivational Changes and Their Causes. (2013, background): “The metaphor stresses the responsive role that is being ascribed to humans when motivation is attributed to inner forces – needs in Hullian terms (Hull, 1951), Triebe / drives in Freudian terms (Freud, 1934) – or to outside stimuli and reinforcement in behaviourist terms (e.g. Watson, 1913).”
The Descriptive Phenomenological Psychological Method (2012, neutral): “Later, when the behaviorist movement (Watson, 1913), dominated the field, positivistic approaches became dominant.”
Motivational dynamics in language learning (2015, background): “Following David Hume’s (1921/1748) emphasis on the external nature of constant conjunction, Watson’s methodological behaviourism rejected inner life because it is not directly observable and requires the unreliable method of introspection (Watson, 1913).”