Early psychoanalytic theories of human behaviour were set forth most notably by Austrian neurologist Sigmund Freud. Freud’s ideas were influenced by Charles Darwin ’s theory of …

Piaget’s theory rests on the fundamental notion that the child develops through stages until arriving at a stage of thinking that resembles that of an adult.

Sep 15, 2025 · Learning theory, any of the proposals put forth to explain changes in behaviour produced by practice, as opposed to other factors, e.g., physiological development.

Oct 18, 2025 · Given the important role organizations play in influencing human action, it is sociology’s task to discover how organizations affect the behaviour of persons, how they are …

Sep 21, 2025 · John B. Watson, American psychologist who codified and publicized behaviorism, which, in his view, was restricted to the objective, experimental study of the relations between …

Human behaviour - Personality, Socialization, Development: Several theories of personality development stress that adulthood and aging are periods of qualitative change, of …

In addition to his widely read Science and Human Behavior (1953), Skinner wrote many other books, including Verbal Behavior (1957), The Analysis of Behavior (with J.G. Holland, 1961), …

Many of these early theories depicted collective behavior as an atavism, in which the evolutionary accomplishments of civilization were stripped away and human behavior returned to an earlier …

Stimulus-response theory developed from early conceptions of conditioning, a behavioral process whereby a response becomes more frequent or more predictable in a given environment as a …

This article treats as separate various substantive spheres of human development (physical, perceptual, cognitive, linguistic, personality, and social), as it does various temporal phases of …