What is the goal of behaviorism?
a. to understand the conscious and unconscious thoughts that produce behavior
b. to understand behavior in simple non-mentalistic terms
c. to teach people to get along with one another peacefully
d. to trace behaviors to underlying genetics and brain processes?
The answer is: b. to understand behavior in simple non-mentalistic terms
In order to achieve this goal, behaviorist use various systematic approaches in order to learn why individuals behave a certain way. To test whether they could teach the subjects to do a certain behavior, behaviorist often utilized the relationship between conditioned stimulus/response.
