ABSTRACT
In 1913, John Broadus Watson radically altered the methods and scope of the still comparatively new science of psychology when he published his article, ‘Psychology as the Behaviorist Views It’, in the American journal Psychological Review. Watson was born on a farm in Greenville, South Carolina, in 1878. Despite a record of rebelliousness at school, Watson made sufficient academic progress so as to be admitted, in 1893, into Furman University, a Baptist institution then located in Greenville. Watson’s doctoral work on his rats enabled him to be granted his Ph.D. ‘magna cum laude’ and his thesis was published by the University of Chicago Press, in 1903, under the title Animal Education. Behaviourism in psychology arose as a theory about the proper or truly scientific way to investigate the psychology of humans and other animals.
