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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
behaviourism
noun
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▪ 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 increasingly swelled by deserters from social behaviourism - an evidently liberal position.
▪ One of the main tenets of behaviourism is that behaviour can be shaped through reinforcement by reward.
▪ Other objections to traditional behaviourism can be transferred from their use with other related conceptions, to which we now turn.
▪ The last paragraph sums up a standard hermeneutic objection to behaviourism.
▪ The more literally this is interpreted the more it seems to lead into mechanistic, one-way formulations such as behaviourism.
▪ This constructivist approach is opposed to psychological behaviourism.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
behaviourism

behaviourism \behaviourism\ n. same as behaviorism.

Syn: behaviorism, behavioristic psychology, behaviouristic psychology.

Wiktionary
behaviourism

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 on behaviour, denying any independent significance for mind and assuming that behaviour is determined by the environment

WordNet
behaviourism

n. an approach to psychology that emphasizes observable measurable behavior [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.