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The behaviorist advances the view that what the psychologists have hitherto called thought is in short nothing but talking to ourselves.

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Psychology, as the behaviorist views it, is a purely objective, experimental branch of natural science which needs introspection as little as do the sciences of chemistry and physics.... The position is taken here that the behavior of man and the behavior of animals must be considered in the same plane.

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Give me a dozen healthy infants, well-formed, and my own specified world to bring them up in and I'll guarantee to take any one at random and train him to become any type of specialist I might select — doctor, lawyer, artist, merchant chief and, yes, even beggarman and thief, regardless of his talents, penchants, tendencies, abilities, vocations, and race of his ancestors.

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The universe will change if you bring up your children, not in the freedom of the libertine, but in behavioristic freedom.

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No one knows just how the idea of a soul or the supernatural started... It probably had its origin in the general laziness of mankind.

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I would rather see the behavior of one white rat observed carefully from the moment of birth until death than to see a large volume of accurate statistical data on how 2,000 rats learned to open a puzzle box.

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What we observe is not nature itself but nature exposed to our method of questioning. Our scientific work in physics consists in asking questions about nature in the language that we possess and trying to get an answer from experiment by the means that are at our disposal.
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John B. Watson

John B. Watson
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Born: January 9, 1878
Died: September 25, 1958 (aged 80)
Bio: John Broadus Watson was an American psychologist who established the psychological school of behaviorism.
Known for:
  1. Psychological Care of Infant and Child (1928)
  2. The battle of behaviorism (1928)
  3. Behaviorism (1924)

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