The Evolution of Behaviorism

Behaviorism was the idea that everything could be reduced down to an exchange of inputs and outputs stimulus response mappings. In order to study the human mind We need to study it through behavior, he says. The classic example is Pavlovian's dogs where you have these dogs who salivate whenever they're about to get fed. And we can essentially build any behavioral response and any complexity of incoming stimuli by pairing them with each other.