Behaviourism and Human Nature

Behaviourism is one of many schools of modern psychology and had an enormous contribution regarding human nature and behavioural patterns. The supposed founder of modern psychology, Wihelm Wundt, began the discipline with Structuralism. This approach attempted to analyze the contents of the mind, using the introspectionist method, which meant that Wundt analyzed the content of his own conscious mind. Soon this approach was abandoned as psychology moved towards studying beahviour patterns rather than the content …

…of innate influences and simplistic view of people, mental processes and behaviour is the main disapprobation for the behaviourist view of human nature. Even though behaviourism was very scientific, explained a great deal of phenomena and produced many effective practical applications, the way in which it tackled its subject matter and expressed its theories and ideas was/is frequently rejected as it most definitely degrades people and repudiates one of humanity's most esteemed traits, freewill.