Behaviorist theory is founded by J.B . Watson. Basically it is a
psychological theory of native language learning. This theory was advanced in
America as a new approach to psychology in the early decades of the 20th
century by making a particular emphasis on the importance of verbal behaviour.
This has received a considerable trust from the educational world of 1950s.
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Behavirist theory is originated from
Pavlov’s experiment which indicates that stimulus and response work together. Ivan
Pavlov, Behaviorisma Russioan Psychologiat, conducted a series of experiments
in which he trained a dog to salivate when hearing a tuning fork through a
procedure that he has come to be known as classical conditioning. For him, the
procces of learning consisted of the formation of association betweeen stimuli
and reflexive responses. In his classical experiments he trained a dog to
associate the sound of a tuning fork fork with salivation until the dog
acquired a conditioned response that is salivation at the sound of the tuning fork. A previously neutral
stimulus (the sound of the tuning fork) had acquired the power to elicit a
response (salivation) that was originally elicited by another stimulus (the
smell of food).
