By then Watson had already formed ideas that would become a whole branch of psychology: behaviorism. He studied the biology, physiology, and behavior of animals, inspired by the recent work of ...

As a doctoral student and professor of psychology, John Watson studied the behavior of animals. He especially was interested in stimulus-response reactions to various situations, such as rats ...

Watson – widely regarded as the founder of the school of behaviorism – decided that ... presented [the Albert study] as a proof for his theory that all our emotional responses in adulthood ...