Character introduction:
John Broadus Watson is an American psychologist and the founder of behaviorism. He believes that the object of psychological research is not consciousness but behavior, and the research method of psychology must abandon the "introspection method" and replace it with the experimental method and observation method commonly used in natural science.
Character life:
John B. Watson (1878- 1958) was born in Greenville, South Carolina, USA on 1878. He started his education at school when he was a child. Watson admitted that he was not a good student when he was a child. He is a little lazy, disobedient, competitive and has poor academic performance, so he can only reluctantly upgrade. It didn't change until I entered the local Warman University.
1894 Entered workman University. Five years later, he got a master's degree. Later, he chose the University of Chicago with the goal of getting a doctorate in philosophy. However, in his study, his enthusiasm for philosophy quickly disappeared, and it was even difficult for him to understand Dewey's thoughts.
However, under the influence of Angel, he became interested in psychology and took neurology as his second minor. He also studied biology and physiology under the guidance of Loeb. 1903 got a doctorate in philosophy and got married.
Until 1908, he was a lecturer at the University of Chicago. Over the years, he not only studied and worked, but also did a lot of animal behavior experiments, and showed a preference for studying behavior with animals as the object. Began to form his belief in the direction of behaviorism.
Academic point of view:
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 "painful response", and replaced illusions with visual response errors.
At the same time, Watson also believes that a psychology can be written in terms of "stimulus and response" and "habit formation" instead of "consciousness", "mental state" and "mind".