### person | scientist | psychologist:

Academic psychologist
* Some academic psychologists work as consultants, therapists, and counsellors on a part-time basis.
* work as teachers and researchers in universities and colleges.

Behavioral psychologist
* exhort that the best predictor of future behavior is past behavior.
* have a term known as territorial imperative.
* teach that behavior that is rewarded is likely to be repeated.

### person | scientist | psychologist:

Behaviorist
* Many behaviorists feel that cats mark their environment in response to stress or anxiety
  - have academic appointments in biology, zoology or psychology departments
* Most behaviorist explain most everyday learning in terms of operant conditioning
  - behaviorists are trainers with a boatload of experience
* Some behaviorists refuse to treat a dog they consider to be a threat to life
  - say fishing form of obsessive-compulsive disorder
* are often a last resort for owners of problem pets
  - persons who study the behavior of others
  - strong believers in determinism
* believe learning is explained in terms of observable stimulus and response events.
* believe that all behaviors are learned
  - behavior is caused by things that happen in the environment
  - infants' attachment behaviors are learned responses
  - personality is plastic
  - the function of the mind is to mirror an external reality
* consider 'mind' to be a catch-all term for a set of behaviors
  - all human actions to be implicit reactions to prior conditioning
  - factors such as alcohol consumption and speeding
* deny the relevance of mental states to psychological explanation.
* explain personality in terms of the effects external stimuli have on behavior.
* focus on conditioning, including reinforcement, extinction and stimulus control
  - relationships between stimuli and responses
  - solely on what can be observed
* have no interest in the intangible and invisible workings of the mind.
* learning theorists believe that knowledge exists independently and outside of people.
* often categorize aggression toward people according to the source of the aggression.
* respect beliefs.
* seek scientific laws to control and predict human behavior.
* stress the importance of dealing with behaviors that are directly observable.
* study individual's behaviour rather than looking at their brain and nervous system.
* treat animal neuroses in a number of ways.
* use personality traits as intervening variables rather than as hypothetical constructs
  - the word behavior to refer to the sensorimotor effects of reinforcement history
+ Applied behavior analysis, History, Behaviorism
  * Psychologists who study the way the environment influences behavior are called behaviorists. Behaviorists believe that behavior is caused by things that happen in the environment. These things are called external events. External events could be any change in the environment. They study the external causes of behavior instead of a person's feelings. A person's feelings are internal so behaviorists think they cannot be studied scientifically. Feelings are internal because they happen inside of a person's body.
+ Behaviorism: Psychology
  * Behaviorism', or 'behaviourism', is an approach to psychology. Behaviorists say that scientific study of behavior should consist only of what can be directly seen. A person's behavior or an animal's behavior in specific situations can be seen. The mind or thoughts of people and animals cannot be seen. Behaviorists focus on relationships between stimuli and responses. Unseen qualities such as states of mind were not part of the study. Even though we know today that the mind plays a part in all advanced animals' behaviors. The mentality of apes'. They believe that in  man, the mind was not allowed to play any part in behaviorist psychology This was decided because the mind could not be directly observed.