My Topic
Human can't understand all secrets about human mind with behaviorism.
What I Hope to Learn This Research
I want to know what behaviorism helped psychologists to study and its limitation. Although behaviorism helped psychologists to reveal a lot of secrets about the human mind such as reinforcement, classic conditioning, it got a lot criticizing because of its narrow and strict methodology.
Notes
1. Behaviorism reinforced the scientific characteristic of psychology. Also, it gave a lot of valuable lessons to psychologists. First, it is possible to control human's cognition if behavior is manipulated. (To manipulate human's behavior uses various reinforcements.) Second, psychology is not a philosophy which considered human's mind as abstract subject. Scholar who studies human's mind should be acclimatized with statistics, experiment and biology.
2. Behaviorism has been criticized by following opinions.
a) Behaviors are always expressed by language. Language can't depict and express human's mind enough because of its symbolism.
b) Behavior can't include human's all mind. For example, most of our imaginations can't be seen by others unless we record it in blank note.
c) Behaviorism always argued that there was no 'MIND'. However, what is their 'MIND'? They said that abstract things like belief isn't exist. Then, why we believe God? How we start to believe God? Why we pay tithing? Because of altruism? then, isn't altruism abstract?
Video / Behaviorism's Limitation
Pic / Opening Skinner's Box (Lauren Slater, 2005)
Final Thought
Behaviorism contributed to make psychology as scientific and quantity field about human's mind. It has still influenced our mind today. However, psychologist can't understand human's mind with only behaviorism because it overlooked the cognitive and abstract side of human's mind. It tried to explain human's mind in terms of only behavior and visible response, but it can't include all of human's mind processes.
*Source 1. www.youtube.com
2. terms.naver.com
3. www.koreanpsychology.or.kr
4. www.simplypsychology.com
5. Opening Skinner's Box (Lauren Slater, 2005)
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