Compare and contrast the two approaches to behaviorism advocated by Watson and McDougall.
What will be an ideal response?
Both Watson and McDougall believed that psychology should be the study of
behavior. However, they were very different in several ways. Watson was a radical
behaviorist, which means that he thought only directly observable events should be
studied in psychology; in contrast, McDougall was a methodological behaviorist, which
means that he believed that internal causes of behavior could be speculated. Watson
concluded that instincts play no role in human behavior, whereas McDougall made
instincts the cornerstone of his theory.
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