Mechanical Man: John B. Watson and the Beginnings of Behaviorism

by Kerry W. Buckley

Book Overview

This book is the definitive biography of the most influential American psychologist of his generation. As the founder of behaviorism, John Broadus Watson exerted a powerful influence on the development of American experimental psychology. By the age of 36, he was president of the American Psychological Association and head of the psychology department at Johns Hopkins University. But his dramatic dismissal from academic life in 1920 propelled him...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0898627443
• ISBN13: 9780898627442
• Release Date: January 1989
• Publisher: Guilford Publications
• Length: 233 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.3" x 9.3"