Healthy Personality According to Behaviorism

Behaviorism is a school of psychology founded by John B. Watson in 1913 who argued that the behavior must be an element of the single subject of psychology. Behaviorism is a revolutionary flow, strong and influential, and have historical roots deep enough. Behaviorism was born as a reaction to introspeksionisme (which analyzes the human psyche is based on subjective reports) and psychoanalysis (which speaks of the unconscious that is not visible). Behaviorism strongly reject the elements of consciousness that is not real as the object of study of psychology, and confine themselves to the study of the behavior of the real. Thus, Behaviorism does not agree with the decomposition of the soul into the element as trusted by strukturalism. Means also behaviorism already go beyond the functionalism that still acknowledges the existence of the soul and still focus on mental processes.

Behaviorism want to analyze that behavior that looks alone can be measured, described, and predictable. Behaviorism see also that when they are born, humans basically do not bring anything talent. Humans will evolve based on the stimuli it receives from the surrounding environment. Bad environment will produce a bad man, a good environment will produce a good human being. The behaviourist approach focuses itself on a truly scientific objective. The behaviorist write off of their scientific dictionaries, all of which are subjective terminology, such as sensation, perception, desire, purpose, even including thought and emotion, as far as the two terms are subjectively defined. Functionalism as a basis for behaviorism through its influence on the main character of behaviorism, namely Watson. Watson was a student of Angell and wrote his dissertation at the University of Chicago. Watson rationale that focuses more mental processes than the elements of consciousness, the focus is real behavior and the development of animal psychology in psychology and child psychology is the influence of functionalism. Nevertheless, Watson showed a sharp criticism on functionalism.