Stroop_test_assignment.docx Psy-560 College of Humanities and Social Sciences: Grand Can

Stroop_test_assignment.docx  Psy-560  College of Humanities and Social Sciences: Grand Canyon University  Psy-560: Learning, Cognition and Motivation  Stroop Assignment  Behavioralism  Behavioralism  is a theory which states that human or animal psychology can be studied through observable action or behaviors. This field of study was brought into existence from a reaction to 19th century psychology, which used a person™s thoughts and feeling and for self-examination. These self-thoughts and feelings were used to help examine human and animal psychology and behaviors. Behavioralism theory was introduced into common practice in the later part of the 19th century based off the aspect of mentalism. The aspect of mental hood involves the mind being studied by analogy and by examining a person™s thoughts and feelings which is referred to as introspection. The aspect of mentalist observations was considered to be too subjective be by behaviorist, because they were different then the initial researchers. The results of these  studies led to irreproducible and contradictory results.   Types of Behavioralism  There are two main types of Behavioralism one type is the methodical Behavioralism. This type of Behavioralism which had an influence by John B. Watson™s work, which was a radical behaviorism, and was pioneered by psychologist B.F. Skinner.  (Lim, 2019)Cognitive psychology includes the study of internal mental processing of all the things that go on inside your brain, which includes perception, thi