Following his introduction of transformational generative grammar, Noam Chomsky (b. 1928) mounted a highly publicized attack on behaviorist psychology. Yet when he first developed that approach to grammar, he was a defender of behaviorism.

Does Chomsky support behaviorism?

Noam Chomsky first criticized behaviorism as a graduate student in a famous review of B.F. Skinner’s Verbal Behavior. … Chomsky provided many detailed critiques of the reasoning used by behaviorists in his review but the main thrust of his criticism was that behaviorism could not provide an adequate account of language.

Who is considered a behaviorist?

John B. Watson is known as the father of behaviorism within psychology.