Several concepts in behaviorism are utilized in therapy. As organisms suffer deprivation, it creates certain needs in drives in people that directly impact behavior. Another thinker in behavioral psychology, Clark Hull, pioneered drive theory. He was the first to integrate that and other scientific principles into learning theory. Edward Thorndike introduced the law of effect, which refers to how satisfying responses are more likely to occur again in the future. In addition to Watson, other psychologists helped shape behavioral psychology into what it is today. “Give me a dozen healthy infants, well-formed, and my own special 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, beggarman and thief.”– John B. That view refers to strict or radical behaviorism, which is now largely rejected. The earliest believed conditioning explained all learning and behavioral responses. For instance, perhaps conditioning and environment could understand how and why people learn, act and think.

If Pavlov could pair a stimulus to obtain a new conditioned response, those implications in learning could be applied to other facets of human behavior. His famous experiments with dogs demonstrated that the presence of a bowl of dog food (stimulus) would trigger an unconditioned response (salivation). In what’s known as classical conditioning, Pavlov found that certain objects or events could trigger a response. Watson started behavioral psychology by building off the work of Russian psychologist Ivan Pavlov. It is still used by mental health professionals today, as its concepts and theories remain relevant in fields like psychotherapy and education.

This field of psychology influenced thought heavily throughout the middle of the 20th century.

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