Behaviorism is a theory of learning based on how all the behaviors are acquired through conditioning, and conditioning occurs through the interaction within the environment. There are actually two types of conditioning which are Classical and Operant Conditioning, and Classical Conditioning is frequently used in behavioral training in which a neutral stimulus is paired with a naturally occurring stimulus, and Operant Conditioning is a method of learning that occurs through reinforcements and punishments. Although some strict behaviorist’s believe in which any person can be potentially trained to perform any task regarding any genetic background, personality traits, and their internal thoughts and that it only requires the right conditioning. The founding of the Behaviorism Perspective had to do with John Watson and it began in 1913 when he wrote an article entitled “Psychology as the behaviorist views it”, and it set out multiple assumptions regarding on behavioral analysis, his article is viewed as the “behaviorist manifesto. In the article states the principles of behaviorism “Psychology as the behaviorist views it is a purely objective experimental process of natural science. It’s …show more content…
The way Biological and behaviorism connected is when biopsychologist’s study the brain they learn on what parts of the brain is affective with behavior and what it causes such as how we feel. Behaviorism and Cognitive are connected by the way we are able to train and perform with the right conditioning and if genetics is an effect in the way we as humans act or learn and or think. The way any of these perspectives can be seen my psychologist is by MRI, PET scans which allow them to see the lobes of our brain that allows us to perform the way we do and