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John Broadus Watson, the father of Behaviorism, was born in South Carolina on January 9, 1878 to Emma and Pickens Watson. John grew up in a mixed up household, his father was a known drinker while his mother was a devout Christian. Although he took after his father and got himself into some trouble growing up, he managed to gain admission to Furman College at age sixteen. Upon graduation from Furman, one of John’s professors turned mentor Gordon Moore helped him make the next step, and the following year he enrolled in the University of Chicago’s graduate program. While at Chicago he majored in psychology, under the supervision of James Rowland Angell, and minored in both neurology and philosophy. It was there that he became interested in the field of comparative psychology and studying animals. His dissertation Animal Education: An Experimental Study on the Psychical Development of the White Rat, Correlated with the Growth of its Nervous System was accepted in 1903, and described the psychological and neurological development of the white rat, earning him his doctorate. John chose to stay in Chicago as a teacher, and quickly fell for one of his students. His fraternization caused him a lot of trouble, so to avoid more problems with the faculty and the possibility of losing his position altogether, he chose to leave on his own, later becoming a professor of psychology at Johns Hopkins University. Soon after arriving at Hopkins John Watson was made departmentShow MoreRelatedJohn Broadus Watson : The Son Of Emma And Pickens Watson1007 Words   |  5 PagesJohn Broadus Watson was born near Greenville, South Carolina on January 9, 1878. He was the son of Emma and Pickens Watson. In the year 1891, John and the rest of his family was left behind by his father, complicating everything. Given the situations that his family was very poor, everything then became different for them. Since his father left his family, Watson held a long-life resentment towards him. He had hatred told his father for a long time for abandoning him. As a young child, John Broadus