John Watson Research Paper

John Watson was born in South Carolina in 1878. He went to Furman University when he was 16 years old. He received his PhD in psychology in 1903. When Watson had graduated from John Hopkins University he then realized he wanted to get involved in the behaviorism in psychology.

Watson started to look at animals and humans behaviorism. He reflexes what Ivan Pavlov had developed and applied it to the study of behavior. Watson was looking at how humans and animals act different in different situations like environment. “Watson had a study that he called Little Albert experiment. This shows children or humans emotional reactions fear, rage and love. He especially was interested in stimulus-response reactions to various situations, such as rats going through a maze. …show more content…
He repeatedly presented Albert a rat in conjunction with a sudden, loud noise to classically condition fear of the rat” (Emily Watson 1999). What Watson did was to show how we react. Example when I was little I use to always play with dogs and be able to feed them with my hand, after a big dog chassed me at the park with a squirrel in his mouth when I was three I became scared dogs. It did not matter if dogs were big or small I didn’t trust them because I was scared. Like Watson Theory if someone is fine with something but you hear a noise or something happens to scare you at some point you will start to have fear for

Behaviorism is a passive responding to environmental stimuli. It can be a negative or a positive reinforcement. For example a positive reinforcement is when a dog that is being trained to sit, gets rewarded with a treat when the dog listens and sits. The dog gets used to the word sit that after awhile the dog does not need a treat anymore to sit and