Around the 1960s, cognitive psychologists became dissatisfied with behaviorism for understanding learning and started focusing more on thought

By the 1960s, many psychologists were frustrated with the limits of behaviorism. It seemed like an overly simplistic way to understand complex human beings. Along came people like [Jean Piaget and Lev Vygotsky, who were interested in how people thought, not just how they behaved. Behaviorism argues that humans learn in response to environmental stimuli; cognitive psychologists acknowledged that, in between the environment and behavior, there was a thinking human being.

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References

• Fisher, Naomi. (2021). Changing Our Minds Chapter 2. Learning – Scientists, Processors and Rats (p. ). London, UK: Robinson Publishing.

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