Behaviourism is a school of psychology founded in the United States by J.B.Watson in 1913 as a reaction against a prevailing (European) emphasis in academic psychology on the conscious examination of the contents of the mind. Watson believed that the work of pavlov on conditioning represented the future of psychology which should give up all talk of mind and consciousness and deal solely with the objective study and manipulation of human and animal behaviour. Watson is now generally regarded by psychologists as much too extreme and simple-minded, having been
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