The following is, for the most part, an excerpt of a book chapter I'm working on for an APA book series: Psychologists have a long history of ignoring (e.g., Koch, 1964), not understanding (e.g., ...

Behaviorism was born from research done by Ivan Pavlov in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Pavlov’s research into animal digestion led to the recognition that the animals that were being ...

My recent article, "Behavior Modification Is Everywhere: Why Education Can’t Afford to Pretend Otherwise," sparked thoughtful, even passionate, comments from readers. These responses highlighted ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract ABSTRACT Methodological behaviorism is a stance on verbal processes and the meaning of “psychological” terms and concepts that are deployed in ...

Have you ever wondered exactly why people do what they do? According to a school of thought known as behaviorism, it all comes down to the patterns of learning we've acquired through associations, ...

IT is said that when Faraday showed a group of scientists his discovery of magneto-electricity, someone asked: ‘Of what use is it?' To which he replied: ‘Of what use is a babe?' Dr. Watson not only ...

New findings emerging from developmental behavior genetics indicate that individuals living in the same family develop in ways that make them remarkably different from each other despite the ...

Who do you want your child to be when they grow up? This is a question that we all need to consider when determining if behaviorism is working in the classroom. Currently, in almost every classroom ...

As April approaches, autistics anxiously await another annual air raid of “autism awareness” campaigns that frame our neurodivergence as a “disorder” and dismiss our demands for acceptance.

Get the rat to the cheese. That's really what each U.S. political party is promising to do if its candidate is elected President. The rat in this analogy is the enervated American worker. The cheese ...