Behaviorism: Definition, History, and Concepts

  Psychology draws from different schools and approaches that have particular ways of understanding the human mind and behavior. The plurality of perspectives that converge enriches the vision of the object of study, both in its individual and social parts. One of these approaches is behaviorism. For behaviorism, each human life unfolds in environments that reinforce certain patterns of responses, certain behaviors, and specific ways of behaving in a different variety of situations. Behaviorism was the leading approach in psychology from 1920 to about 1950. In fact, during these three decades, this approach developed into one of the strongest and…