John Broadus Watson was a pioneering psychologist who revolutionized psychology in the early 20th century by introducing behaviorism, a scientific approach that focused on observable behaviors ...

John Watson was born in South Carolina in 1878 ... and went on to the University of Chicago to pursue a doctorate in psychology and philosophy. Along the way, he dropped the philosophy and ...

As a doctoral student and professor of psychology, John Watson studied the behavior of animals. He especially was interested in stimulus-response reactions to various situations, such as rats ...