BEHAVIORISM

5.1

Behaviorism

Losing one’s mind: in the video below, Rui Mata explains how psychology became the science of behavior.

At the beginning of the 20th century, experimental psychology was largely the science of conscious mental experience - yet psychologists could not agree on what this meant. In the meanwhile, young psychologists were enticed by a new alternative that promised to establish psychology as a natural science based entirely on describing and predicting behavior.

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University of Basel