os;s initial writings about Behaviorism:
             "Psychology as the behaviorist views it is a purely objective experimental branch of natural science. Its theoretical goal is the prediction and control of behavior. Introspection forms no essential part of its methods, or is the scientific value of its data dependent upon the readiness with which they lend themselves to interpretation in term of consciousness. The behaviourist, in his efforts to get a unitary scheme of animal response, recognizes no dividing line between man and brute. The behaviour of man, with all of its refinement and complexity, form only a part of the behaviourist's total scheme of investigation (pg 73)."
             As you can see by Watson's writings, many things had to change in order to get to this new behaviorist thought. One of the major changes was a rejection of introspection as a way of studying humans. As stated above, introspection played no part in his new psychology because he believed that what people introspected was not relevant but the actions they took were key. "Behavioristic psychology has as its goal to be able, given the stimulus, to predict the response- or, seeing the reaction [to identify the stimulus that] called out the reaction (Watson, pg 12)." Watson believed that all human behavior could be explained by this stimulus-response theory. He theorized that a stimulus-response pair is then followed by a stimulus, which leads to a response and continues in this pattern. These patterns seem to start at birth with the very basic responses being present. Watson believed that humans are essentially born with little to no behaviors (except those of survival) and learn, through reinforcement, to complete new behaviors.
             According to his statement above, Watson believed that there is "no dividing line between man and brute." He thought that animals and humans could be studied on the same level. "The positio...