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Transcript of Devoted Baptist (Reedy River Baptist Church) Revival every year Believe in strict parenting.
JOHN BROADUS WATSON 1878-1958
HIS MOTHER EMMA ROSE ROE
Devoted Baptist (Reedy River Baptist Church)
Revival every year Believe in strict parenting
HIS FATHER PICKENS
His parents were wealthy and owned a lot of land
He had 9 siblings who were successful Ran away from home at age 16 Drink a lot Became banished from his family after marring Emma.
By the time John was born his parents were very isolated from everyone
His father tried to provide but couldn’t stick to one job
Alcoholic Unfaithful to his wife Was absent most of the time
1878 ~ John BroadusWatson nearGreenville, South Carolina. 4th of 6 children By the time he was 13 his father had
left for good Pickens tried to come back into his life
when John was famous but John wanted nothing to do with him
CHILDHOOD
Grew up in poverty, unstable parenting But was mostly not unordinary for rural
America during this time. The often absent father and long-suffering mother were typical in American folklord for this time period.
At age 6 he started going to a one room school At age 8 he and his siblings started to go to
The Travelers Rest Academy (a private school) When he was 9, he was good at handling tools,
milking cows.
In 1890, Emma sold the farm and the children moved to the large town of Greensville
Did this for more opportunity's and to try and get out of poverty
This was a most likely a shock for Watson
And said later in life that he has only a few pleasant memories from living there
GREENSVILLE, 1890
YOUTH
John is now age 12 and going in to the 7th grade
Shy, Lazy, insubordinate, never made above a passing grade
The target of jokes, and fought often with classmates
“Swats”
YOUTH CONTINUED
“happiness it the state of being completely absorbed in activity”He felt like he needed to have control and staying busy doing activities was a way to control something
YOUNG ADULT
After school John would come home from school and enjoy participating in “Nigger fighting”
It was his favorite thing to do He was arrested once for fighting with
blacks He was also arrested for discharging a
firearm within city limits. Known as a troubled adolescent
YOUNG ADULT CONTINUED
1881, carrying concealed weapons was normal
Watson carried a pistol to protect himself
“that church membership had a good and restraining influence upon all classes”
Baptist Courier Started attending, Pendleton Street
church
WATSON AND CHURCH
Watson was a member of the Pendleton Street Church until late in his college years
Transferred his membership to a larger church, the First Baptist Church
Edward Pickens
COLLEGE
At age 16, Watson started attending Furman University’s “Fitting-school”, as a “sub-freshmen”
Founded in 1827 Kappa Alpha fraternity Lived at home and Worked in the chemistryLab to pay for school
Graduated with a master's degree at age 21….
The purpose of college Watson the Principle His beloved mother passed away Letter to Harper
UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO
In the fall of 1900, he moved to Chicago and once again was in shock of the big city
Psychology at the time was considered to be one of the newest professions with particular promise.
Became interested in the field of comparative psychology and studying animals
majored in psychology and minored in philosophy and neurology
Work ethic and breakdown
MARY ICKES
Background Meeting December 1903 they married and again in the fall of 1904 Later had two children Mary and John
The youngest person to get a Ph. D. in Psychology in 1903 from the University of Chicago
Consume himself with his career to solve his emotional crisis
Watson stated that he often mentored female students but felt uncomfortable having them as professional peers
1903
Watson took the position of instructorship at the university of Chicago
Made $1,000 per year Started to believe that observation of
behavior was key in understanding the behaviors.
JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY March 1908 he accepted a full professor
position at Johns Hopkins and started in the fall at age 29.
He loved being there because he had freedom
At 31 he became the director of psychology Editor of the Psychological review journal Pushed for psychology to be equal to
natural sciences 1910, Watson and Robert M. Yerkes started
the Journal of Animal Behavior
Researched migrating and nesting of habits of species of terns
Traveled to do give speeches
WATSONS THEORY ON… Behavior defined “a biological problem while ignoring consciousness” Psychology defined“Human activity and conduct” Goal of psychology“not only to be able to predict behavior but to control it” Psychology should be“the observable fact that organisms, man and animal alike do adjust themselves to their environment by means of hereditary and habit equipment”
WORK ETHICS
“Determined to get a living wage” Drove himself at a frantic pace that
brought him to the brink of a nervous exhaustion
Control He really wanted to make psychology a
“desirable field for work” “kept (his) nose to the grindstone”
1915, Russian psychologist Pavlov Tool for gathering data and modifying behavior Behaviorism = Observed, recorded and
measured. John Hopkins Medical School – the clinic and
psychological laboratory “swing around to the human side” “I get about forty babies a month” 1916, Found the key to human emotion FEAR, RAGE, & LOVE
WWI: MAJOR IN THE SIGNAL CORPS
In a group of scientists and engineers who played a crucial role in developing policies that would shape relationships among science, government, and industry for years to come.
Watson thought it was a good idea to mobilize psychology for the war
After the war Psychology showed its achievements
WHO WOULD HAVE GUESSED?
The summer of 1919 A grant from the United States Social Hygiene Board
"LITTLE ALBERT"
1920 did the Little Albert experiment with the help of his assistant Roselie Rayner
Alert was 9mos and have lived in the hospital since birth
Watson made no attempt to “recondition” Albert after he was done with him
Phobia of fur coats later in life Psychiatrist tried to find some sexual basis
for the fear
ROSALIE RAYNER His mistress Came from a wealthy family Married on New Years Eve Forced to resign by the administrative officials at Hopkins James and William Died in 1935, at age 36
ADVERTISEMENTS
New York in 1921 Became the vice president in the J. Walter
Thompson advertising agency He claimed he wanted to become an
"honest-to-goodness working advertising man“, but really he wanted to show how great psychology was in advertisements in hopes of someday going back into psychology research
Thought it was a thankless job
BOOKS 1914: Behavior: An introduction to comparative Psychology
1918: Psychology from the standpoint of a Behaviorist
1925: Behaviorism, revision in 1930.
1928: Psychological Care of Infant and Child
In addition
Retired, sold his estate (by this time Rosalie had passed away)
Bought a farm in Connecticut Spent much of his time building barns,
and outbuildings Had cows, pigs and horses as companions
“I could take a dozen healthy infants and train any one of them to become any type of specialist he might select, doctor, lawyer, artist, merchant-chief and yes, even beggar-man and thief”
……So what about his children?
BEHAVIORAL CHILDREN Mary (a.k.a. Polly) Multiple suicide attempts later in her life John “little John” Rootless, stomach troubles, and headaches
through his life and died in his early 50s from bleeding ulcers from stress
Billy Became a successful Freudian psychiatrist, kill
himself on the second attempt. Jimmy Chronic stomach problems but did better later
in life.
FATHER OF “BEHAVIORISM”
In 1957, a year before his death, John Watson was awarded the gold medal from the American Psychological Association for his contributions to the field of psychology
At age 80 he died September 25, 1958, in New York
HE IS BURIED AT WILLOWBROOK CEMETERY, WESTPORT, CONNECTICUT
WORK CITED http://annascott29.blogspot.com/ http://facweb.furman.edu/~einstein/watson/watson2.htm http://www.upstateancestry.com/Churches/Churches.html http://facweb.furman.edu/~einstein/watson/watson2.htm http://southernspaces.org/2004/carolina-piedmont http://facweb.furman.edu/~einstein/watson/watson3.htm http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tern#/media/File:Crested_tern444_edit.jpg http://www.ediblegeography.com/spaces-of-prohibition/ http://
study.com/academy/lesson/john-watson-and-behaviorism-theory-lesson-quiz.html
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