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In the early twentieth century a new movement in the field of Psychology was being felt in educational research - behaviorism. This is a theory proposed by J.B. Watson and based on the works of Pavlov and Bekhterev, two Russian psychologists who developed an animal training model known as stimulus-response (Classical Conditioning).
Watson argued that such conditioning is the basis of human behavior - if you stand up every time a lady enters the room, you're acting not out of 'politeness', but because behavior is a chain of well-set reflexes. He claimed that "recency" and "frequency" were particularly important in determining what behavior an individual 'emitted' next: if you usually get up when a lady enters the room, you're likely to get up when one enters now.
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