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Behavior became an important construct in early 20th century Psychology with the advent of the paradigm known subsequently as "behaviorism." Behaviorism was a reaction against so-called "faculty" psychology which purported to see into or understand the mind without the benefit of scientific testing. Behaviorism insisted on working only with what can be seen or manipulated and in the early views of [[John B. Watson]], a founder of the field, nothing was inferred as to the nature of the entity that produced the behavior.  Subsequent modifications of Watson's perspective and that of so-called "classical conditioning" (see under [[Ivan Pavlov]] led to the rise of Operant Conditioning, a theory advocated by [[B.F. Skinner]], which took over the academic establishment up through the 1950s and was synonymous with "behaviorism" for many.  

Behavior became an important construct in early 20th century Psychology with the advent of the paradigm known subsequently as "behaviorism." Behaviorism was a reaction against so-called "faculty" psychology which purported to see into or understand the mind without the benefit of scientific testing. Behaviorism insisted on working only with what can be seen or manipulated and in the early views of [[John B. Watson]], a founder of the field, nothing was inferred as to the nature of the entity that produced the behavior.  Subsequent modifications of Watson's perspective and that of so-called "classical conditioning" (see under [[Ivan Pavlov]] led to the rise of Operant Conditioning, a theory advocated by [[B.F. Skinner]], which took over the academic establishment up through the 1950s and was synonymous with "behaviorism" for many.  

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