What is the historical and cultural context of the learning perspective?

The history and culture of the 20th century have formed the theories of the learning perspective. During this time, the United States governed on 3 guiding principles of efficiency, reform, and progress. Around the 20th century was also a great time for science because of all the new revolutionary ideas. As science grew stronger, Freud's theories on the unconscious and introspection methods were believed to be unreliable. This was the point when a new method was formed called behavioralism. In the early 1900’s pyshcologists like John Watson, Ivan Pavlov and Edwin Thorndike, they constructed the basic structure of behavouralism. The US culture was very optimistic in the view of the future believing that everyone can overcome challenges that they face. It was very popular in US because the theories were simple and straight forward to understand. They believed that learning is changes in behavior which occurs as a result of experience. The behaviorist approach emphasizes the role of environmental stimuli in determining the way we act. After then 1950's the learning perspective died down because because of various critism.