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An approach to psychology that emphasizes observable measurable behavior
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behaviourism
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WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. an approach to psychology that emphasizes observable measurable behavior [syn: behaviorism , behavioristic psychology , behaviouristic psychology ]
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
alt. (label en British spelling) an approach to psychology focusing on behaviour, denying any independent significance for mind and assuming that behaviour is determined by the environment n. (label en British spelling) an approach to psychology focusing ...
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ Extreme behaviourism is normally associated with B. F. Skinner. ▪ In ignoring other dimensions of power, behaviourism was accused of producing a superficial account of the distribution of power. ▪ Moreover, its ranks have been ...
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
behaviourism \behaviourism\ n. same as behaviorism . Syn: behaviorism, behavioristic psychology, behaviouristic psychology.
Usage examples of behaviourism.
It will mean discarding many shibboleths, the naive molecular reductionism of the biochemists, the and behaviourism of the psychologists, but we can see the goal clearly.
Skinner, at Harvard, to carry the torch of behaviourism, which he continued to do throughout his long career as experimental psychologist, educational adviser, philosopher and novelist until his death in 1990.
The title not only confirmed the centrality of the hippocampus to studies of animal learning, but was also symbolic of the conceptual shift amongst psychologists away from the crudities of behaviourism and simple associationism towards an understanding of animals, like humans, as cognitive organisms.
Behaviourism itself, indeed, had been originally a kind of inverted Puritan faith, according to which intellectual salvation involved acceptance of a crude materialistic dogma, chiefly because it was repugnant to the self-righteous, and unintelligible to intellectuals of the earlier schools.
It will mean discarding many shibboleths, the naive molecular reductionism of the biochemists, the and behaviourism of the psychologists, but we can see the goal clearly.
If Cartesian dualism is thesis, and behaviourism antithesis, the programme of the holistic modelers epitomized by Boden's slogan is a sort of unholy Hegelian synthesis.