The early school of psychology called behaviorism:
A)grew out of Russian physiologist Ivan Pavlov's pioneering research in which he conditioned dogs to salivate to the sound of a bell.
B)was the first of the early schools to disappear.
C)was flatly rejected by John Watson and B. F. Skinner in the early 1900s.
D)was rejected as a pseudoscience in the early 1930s by the American Psychological Association (APA) and the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS).

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Behaviorism grew out of Ivan Pavlov's research on classical conditioning, in which he conditioned dogs to salivate at the sound of a bell. This research paved the way for behaviorism's focus on the relationship between environmental stimuli, behavior, and response. The other choices are incorrect: Behaviorism did not disappear first (B), and it was not rejected by Watson and Skinner (C), who were actually prominent behaviorists themselves. Finally, behaviorism was never formally rejected by the APA or AAAS (D) as a pseudoscience.

The Early School of Psychology Called Behaviorism