Behavioral Perspective

• Behaviorism emerged in the early 20th century as a reaction to the psychoanalytic theory of the time, and focused on observable behaviors rather than on unconscious inner states.
• The Russian physiologist Ivan Pavlov is widely known for describing the phenomenon now known as classical conditioning in his experiments with dogs.
• John B. Watson was an American psychologist best known for his controversial “Little Albert” experiment using classical conditioning.

Behavioral- initially the behavioral approach studied just the observable behavioral responses but has since evolved to take cognitive processes into consideration as well. Behavioral learning has offered some understanding on working learning approaches and helped us determine the best educating techniques 

While the Behavioral approach goes hand and with the humanistic approach because they both deal with observing and studying. The behavioral approach states “ an approach to psychology emphasizing the scientific study of observable behavioral responses while factoring in environment as well.  An approach that would contrast this is the cognitive approach because the cognitive deals only with the studying the Brain and basically how our mental process deals with decisions.