Nursing is the protection, promotion, and optimization of health and abilities; prevention of illness and injury; alleviation of suffering through the diagnosis and treatment of human responses; and advocacy in health care for individuals, families, communities, and populations. â American Nurses Association.
Behaviorism as a movement in psychology appeared in 1913 when John Broadus Watson published the classic article psychology as the behaviorist views it. John Watson proposed that the process of classical conditioning (based on Pavlovâs observations) was able to explain all aspects of human psychology. Everything from speech to emotional responses were simply patterns of stimulus and response. Watson denied completely the existence of the mind or consciousness.
John Watson was an American psychologist who is considered the father of the psychological school of behaviorism. Behaviorism, according to Watson, was the science of observable behavior. In the fledgling field of psychology, this was a new idea that went against Freud and popular theories about the subconscious, which Watson felt were too subjective.