Have you ever wondered exactly why people do what they do? According to a school of thought known as behaviorism, it all ...

The following is, for the most part, an excerpt of a book chapter I'm working on for an APA book series: Psychologists have a long history of ignoring (e.g., Koch, 1964), not understanding (e.g., ...

A recent conference highlighted the dwindling presence of behavior in psychology, the so-called science of behavior. The theme of last week’s conference, held at Purdue University, was behavior. I ...

Cognitive psychology and behaviorism are often held to be competing, mutually exclusive paradigms in contemporary psychology. The present paper argues that cognitive psychology is actually quite ...

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 going ...

The scientific study of both internal mental processes and observable behavior is known as psychology. It explains activities ...

An undergraduate major or minor in psychology is preferred. The program will also consider other experiences and strengths if the academic background does not contain preparatory experiences. If ...

We know not everyone learns and retains information the same way, so what can we do to make sure that everyone benefits from their education? The aim of research in educational psychology is to ...

An undergraduate major in psychology A minimum GPA of 3.0 Other criteria taken into consideration include letters of reference, research activity, work experience, social and professional skills and ...

Psychologists explore why humans and other living things behave as they do. Our psychology major helps students understand human cognition, emotion, behavior, social interactions and mind-brain ...