John broadus Watson

His main research fields include the theory and practice of behavioral psychology, the role of emotional regulation and animal psychology. He believes that the object of psychological research is not consciousness but behavior, and advocates studying the relationship between behavior and environment. The research methods of psychology must abandon introspection and replace it with experimental methods and observation methods commonly used in natural science.

Personal recommendation

Every child has an independent personality. If he can change at will, his personality must be missing. I think children must follow their inner thoughts and release their nature. Only in this way can they grow up to be useful to society. I hope that every parent can learn to foster strengths and avoid weaknesses when educating their children. Only by finding your own hobbies can you have better development. If they change at will, it is likely to affect our social development.

Extended data

Watson is the most important psychologist who applies the principles of learning theory to the study of children's development. He is a representative of environmental determinism. He believes that children are passive individuals, and their growth is determined by the environment. Educators have a great responsibility for who children grow up to be.

Environmental determinists attach importance to the role of education and environment in children's psychological development, but they unilaterally emphasize and mechanically treat the role of environment or education, and think that children's psychological development is completely determined by the environment. This view completely abandons the role of heredity and ignores children's own subjective initiative, so it is not comprehensive.

From his behaviorist point of view, Watson tries to avoid using traditional psychological terms such as "feeling" in his works, and replaces them with words such as "stimulus" and "response". He changed all kinds of feelings into "visual response", "auditory response" and "pain response". He also replaced differential sensitivity with differential response, complementary color vision with white light response, aftereffect with afterimage, and illusion with visual response error.