Behavioral Psychology is basically interested in how our behavior results from the stimuli both in the environment and within ourselves.Behaviorist approaches are different from most other perspectives because they view people as controlled by their environment and specifically that we are the result of what we have learned from our environment.

Ivan Pavlov

Main Characters of Behaviorism

John Locke- Who viewed the new born baby as a blank slate,which its experiences of life would write a specific story.

Ivan Pavlov- He hypothesized that the dogs were responding to the sight of the food. To prove this, he presented food with the clicking of a metronome and discovered that the dogs soon began to salivate simply by hearing the metronome.

John Watson- Watson's theories are often described as extreme behaviorism as he felt that psychologists should only study behavior and not any other processes such as consciousness or feelings because these are not compatible with objective scientific experimentation.

B.F Skinner- Skinner believed that all of our behavior is the result of punishment and reward