Watson's behaviourism was based on
A) Freud's ideas concerning the development of the ego.
B) the ideas of Freud's followers such as Carl Jung and Alfred Adler.
C) classical conditioning.
D) operant conditioning.
E) social learning theory.

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Watson's behaviourism was based on classical conditioning, which involves learning through association between a stimulus and a response. Watson believed that all behaviour could be explained by this principle, and he famously demonstrated this by conditioning a young boy named Little Albert to fear a white rat by pairing it with a loud noise.

Watson's Behaviourism Was Based on