Answer: Behavioral psychology is the scientific approach that limits the study of psychology to measurable or observable behavior. Behavioral psychologists are mainly concerned with a person’s observable behavior that can be objectively recorded and with the relationships of observable behavior to environmental stimuli.
Key Elements of Behavioral Psychology include:
Psychology should be classified and thought of as a branch of science.
This field of psychology is primarily focused on the observable behavior of an individual, as is different than the focus on internal events such as thinking and emotion in cognitive psychology.
Behavioral psychologists do not believe individuals possess free will. They believe an individuals’ environment determines how they behave.
Behavioral psychologists believe a person is born with their mind as a blank slate. This is called tabula rasa.
Behavioral psychologists believe there is little difference between human and animal learning.
All behavior is the result of stimulus, behavior is learnt form the person’s environment.