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behaviorist

behaviorist \behaviorist\ n. a psychologist who subscribes to behaviorism.

Syn: behaviourist.

behaviorist

behaviorist \behaviorist\ behavioristic \behavioristic\adj. of, pertaining to, or characteristic of behaviorists or behaviorism.

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behaviorist

alt. (label en American spelling) One who studies behavior of humans or animals. n. (label en American spelling) One who studies behavior of humans or animals.

WordNet
behaviorist

adj. of or relating to behaviorism; "behavioristic psychology" [syn: behavioristic, behaviouristic, behaviourist]

behaviorist

n. a psychologist who subscribes to behaviorism [syn: behaviourist]

Usage examples of "behaviorist".

The smallest realization - at any step: Cairo, Florence, Paris - that she fitted into a larger scheme leading eventually to her personal destruction and she might have shied off, come to establish eventually so many controls over herself that she became - to Freudian, behaviorist, man of religion, no matter - a purely determined organism, an automaton, constructed, only quaintly, of human flesh.

An animal behaviorist would probably say that this possessiveness was just the instinctive response of her biological clock, so much more keenly tuned in animals, to my longer-than-normal absence on these mornings.

Why did she not behave in accordance with a behaviorist model of pain avoidance?

Though interesting to the animal behaviorist and xenobiologist, Losels, Wyverns, Hydrae, and the Rodents of Unusual Size, et cetera ad nauseam, were all non-sentient.

The conditioning oriented behaviorist simply directs you to break the connection between the situation and the fear response.

Thus, insofar as behaviorist and neuroscientific models rely on firsthand accounts of experience, they continue to depend on introspection.

But eventually it got done and I took off in the early spring with four animal behaviorists, three botanists, and a ton of supplies, and flew north.

Teams of behaviorists assembled in the sewers and conceived a brand of futurism based on filing procedures.

Why would random individuals from a totally different species that evolved three hundred light-years away have such a freakish understanding of a ritual that the greatest linguists and behaviorists of a dozen other sentient species were still unable to parse?

Moreover, with the perceived failure of introspection as a means of scientific inquiry, many behaviorists simply reduced all mental activity, including consciousness itself, to objective behavior.

Only a few people live there, park rangers and behaviorists and ecologists.

Soon after the end of the Second World War, many canine behaviorists said that all military dogs had been destroyed because it was not possible to detrain dogs after military service to the extent that they would be safe for return to civilian life.

American Skinnerian Behaviorist School and the European Pavlovian School were assigned the responsibility, by the military caste, of predicting and controlling human behavior for purposes of .

Much of the stuff available in stores today is neither strictly utilitarian nor scarce: but it is heavily advertised, and the behaviorists who are manipulating the American consumer have thrown classic economic theory into a Skinnerian box.

Finally, the early behaviorists neglected to pass along valuable knowledge to the ordinary person.