Groups the psychologists of the atlas whose primary work built or extended behaviorism, the study of learning through conditioning and reinforcement. Belongs here: Ivan Pavlov, John B. Watson, B.F. Skinner, Clark Hull, Edward Tolman, Albert Bandura, Edward Thorndike, Kenneth Spence and Bruce Alexander. A figure whose learning research centers on internal cognitive representation rather than conditioning is filed under cognitive psychology instead.
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Behaviorism emerged in the early 1900s as a reaction to depth psychology and other traditional forms of psychology.
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