Functionalism, a school of thought concerned with how humans and animals use mental processes to adapt to their environment, began to surface. ... Watson also emphasized the stimulus-response relation, focusing on human reactions to stimuli. ... Skinner invented the "Skinner Box", which is a mechanism used to observe laboratory animals. ...

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Watson directed numerous sorts of research and experiments on animal behavior, raising children, and advertising. ... It creates the impression that the guardians could serve as the discriminative stimulus (SD) in the operant standard. ...

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