The Early School of Psychology Called Behaviorism

question 92

Multiple Choice

The early school of psychology called behaviorism:

• A)grew out of Russian physiologist Ivan Pavlov's pioneering research in which he conditioned dogs to salivate to the sound of a bell.
• B)was the first of the early schools to disappear.
• C)was flatly rejected by John Watson and B. F. Skinner in the early 1900s.
• D)was rejected as a pseudoscience in the early 1930s by the American Psychological Association (APA) and the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS).

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