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It is known as current behaviorism that within the psychology was first developed by psychologist John B. Watson towards the end of the 19th century and which consists of the use of procedures strictly experimental to study observable human behavior, that is to say, plain and simple the conduct that a person displays and will do so by understanding their environment as a set of stimuli-responses.

The origin of this current, which is not considered as a school, but rather a type of clinical orientation, we can find in the so-called associationism proposed by the English philosophers, in functionalism and in the theory of Evolution of Darwin, since those mentioned held a conception of the individual as an organism that adapts to the environment what's up.

When behaviorism came to light, I quickly sought to minimize and displace the kind of introspective study of mental processes, of emotions and the feelings that predominated until that moment and replaced it with the

objective study of human behavior and their relationship with their environment through the use of experimental methods. A notable repercussion awakened behaviorism in its wake. since it mainly promoted the relationship between animal and human research and the approach of psychology with natural Sciences like physics, chemistry and biology.

So, it can be said that behaviorism made three fundamental contributions to today's psychology, on the one hand discovered that the individual is certainly influenced by stimulus conditions, popularized the use of the experimental method for the study of cases individuals and demonstrated convincingly that behaviorism is a useful current to use when solving some practical problems that arise within the psychology.

Likewise, behaviorism will introduce the concept of basic repertoires of conduct, as the main construct to explain human behavior. For this module, the process of learning that takes place throughout individual history is cumulative and hierarchicalThis means that learned behaviors tend to accumulate over time and are organized in such a way that some will have more pre-eminence over others.

Among the personalities that were key at the time of its study and development, in addition to the aforementioned Watson, we find Ivan Petrovich Pavlov, Burrhus Frederic Skinner and Albert Bandura.

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