Books by John B. Watson

This is the sourcebook for one of the most significant movements in twentieth-century psychology.

Watson was the father of behaviorism. His now-revered lectures on the subject defined behaviorism as a natural science that takes the whole field of human adjustment as its own. It is the business of behaviorist psychology to predict and control human activity

Watson, the father of behaviourism, was an influential figure in 20th century psychology. This classic work explains the aim of the field of behaviourism, which is to be able to, given the stimulus, predict the response, or seeing the reaction, to know the stimulus that produced it.