BEHAVIORAL APPROACH

Behaviorism, also called the learning perspective, is a philosophy of psychology based on the proposition that all things that organism do (including acting, feeling and thinking) can and should be regarded as behavior.
When we learn, we are acquiring new knowledge, behaviors, skills, values, or preferences and may involve synthesizing diff. types of information.  The ability to learn is possessed by humans, animals and some machines. Progress over time tends to follow learning curves.
Using the simplest or most frugal route of explanation available is called "Parsimony".  The word Parsimony comes from the Middle English parcimony, from the latin word parsimonia.
EDWARD LEE THORNDIKE was born August 31, 1874, died in August 9, 1949 at the age of 74 yrs old.
He is an American Psychologist who spent nearly his entire career at Teachers College, Columbia University.
He works on animal behavior and the learning process led to the theory of connectionism and helped lay the scientific foundation for modern educational psychology.
I learned that Associationism is the idea that mental processes operate by the association of one state with its successor states.
Edward Lee Thorndike published The Law of Effect in 1950 and it contains that when an S-R association is established in instrumental conditioning between the instrumental response and the contextual stimuli that are presents, the response is reinforced and the S-R association holds the sole responsibility for the occurrence of that behavior.
The law of effect provided a framework for psychologist B. F. Skinner almost half a century later on the principles of operant conditioning. Skinner would later use an updated version of Throndike’s puzzle box and contribute greater to our perception and understanding of the law of effect today and how it relates to operant conditioning, “a learning process by which the effect, or consequence, of a response influences the future rate of production of that response.”
I adopted that Behaviorist Approach focuses in learning, changes in behavior because of experience.
It excludes the changes due to fatigue, injury and drugs.