2.  Devoted Baptist (Reedy River Baptist Church)  Revival every year  Believe in strict parenting

3.  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.

4.  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

5.  1878 ~ John Broadus Watson near Greenville, South Carolina.  4 th 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

6.  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.

7.  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

9.  John is now age 12 and going in to the 7 th grade  Shy, Lazy, insubordinate, never made above a passing grade  The target of jokes, and fought often with classmates  “Swats”

10. “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

11.  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

12.  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

13.  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

14.  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 chemistry Lab to pay for school

15.  Graduated with a master's degree at age 21….  The purpose of college  Watson the Principle  His beloved mother passed away  Letter to Harper

16.  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

17. MARY ICKES  Background  Meeting  December 1903 they married and again in the fall of 1904  Later had two children Mary and John

18.  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

19.  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.

20.  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

21.  Researched migrating and nesting of habits of species of terns  Traveled to do give speeches

22.  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”

23.  “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”

24.  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

25.  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

26.  The summer of 1919  A grant from the United States Social Hygiene Board

27.  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

29. 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

30.  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

31.  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

32.  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

33.  “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?

34.  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.

35.  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

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