Summarize John B. Watson's and B. F. Skinner's approaches to psychology
What will be an ideal response?
* Watson believed that psychology should be concerned with only what could be observed; behavior could be assessed with animals in tightly controlled laboratory settings and later expanded to human beings.
* Skinner believed that behavioral changes were the result of environmental consequences and that the goal of psychology should be to identify and change these environmental conditions.
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Answer the following statement true (T) or false (F)