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behaviourist

behaviourist \behaviourist\ n. same as behaviorist.

Syn: behaviorist.

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behaviourist

alt. (label en British spelling) One who studies behaviour, in humans or animals. n. (label en British spelling) One who studies behaviour, in humans or animals.

WordNet
behaviourist

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

behaviourist

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

Usage examples of "behaviourist".

But, equally, the insistence on treating the brain as a sort of black box whose internal biological mechanisms and processes are irrelevant, and all that matters is to match inputs to outputs, is reminiscent of the behaviourist programme in psychology, about which there will be much more to say in Chapter 6.

Here, however, it was soon complemented by an equally arid orthodoxy deriving from a US school of psychologists calling themselves behaviourists.

Well, it looks as if some of our behaviourists are going to have to go back to school and start learning their A.

I think that what has permanent value in the outlook of the behaviourists is the feeling that physics is the most fundamental science at present in existence.

It has seemed to the behaviourists that similar methods can be applied to human behaviour, without assuming anything not open to external observation.

So far, there is nothing particularly repugnant to our prejudices in the conclusions of the behaviourists.

The behaviourists have challenged introspection even more vigorously than Knight Dunlap, and have gone so far as to deny the existence of images.

I do not myself believe that the analysis of knowledge can be effected entirely by means of purely external observation, such as behaviourists employ.

It is clearly essential to the interest of this theory that the thought or rule alluded to by Buhler should not need to be expressed in words, for if it is expressed in words it is immediately capable of being dealt with on the lines with which the behaviourists have familiarized us.

Character would greatly depend on upbringing and, whatever Pavlov and the Behaviourists might say, to a certain extent on the character of the parents.

For a behaviourist, this must certainly count as knowledge, however it may be viewed by analytic psychology.

Obsessed with formalizing these effects, comparing different schedules of reinforcement, the behaviourist journals became full of trivial phenomenology, mere catalogues of seemingly objective facts about the behaviour of rats in boxes as tidily classified as the stamps in a fanatic's collection, but as indifferent to either the biology or to the broader behavioural range of the animals they were ostensibly studying as were the pavlovians.