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Behaviourist and Psychodynamic approach Behaviourism originated with the work of J.B Watson, an American psychologist. Watson claimed that psychology was not concerned with the mind or with human consciousness instead, psychology would be concerned only with behaviour. In this way, men could be studied objectively, like rats and apes. Watson's work was based on the experiments of Ivan Pavlov, who had studied animal's responses to conditioning. In Pavlov's experiment, he rang a bell as he fed some dogs several meals. Each time the dogs heard the bell they knew that a meal was coming, and they would begin to salivate. He then rang the bell without bringing food, but the dogs still salivated. They had been "conditioned" to salivate at the sound of a bell. For example when he rang the bell (unconditioned stimuli) if this occurs at same time there's another action taking place (food bowl) this can lead to a...

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