Definitions for behaviorism
bɪˈheɪv yəˌrɪz əmbe·hav·ior·ism

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1. behaviorism, behaviourism, behavioristic psychology, behaviouristic psychologynoun

   an approach to psychology that emphasizes observable measurable behavior

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1. behaviorismnoun

   an approach to psychology focusing on behavior, denying any independent significance for mind and assuming that behavior is determined by the environment

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1. Behaviorism

   Behaviorism is a systematic approach to understanding the behavior of humans and animals. It assumes that behavior is either a reflex evoked by the pairing of certain antecedent stimuli in the environment, or a consequence of that individual's history, including especially reinforcement and punishment contingencies, together with the individual's current motivational state and controlling stimuli. Although behaviorists generally accept the important role of heredity in determining behavior, they focus primarily on environmental events. Behaviorism emerged in the early 1900s as a reaction to depth psychology and other traditional forms of psychology, which often had difficulty making predictions that could be tested experimentally, but derived from earlier research in the late nineteenth century, such as when Edward Thorndike pioneered the law of effect, a procedure that involved the use of consequences to strengthen or weaken behavior. With a 1924 publication, John B. Watson devised methodological behaviorism, which rejected introspective methods and sought to understand behavior by only measuring observable behaviors and events. It was not until the 1930s that B. F. Skinner suggested that covert behavior—including cognition and emotions—is subject to the same controlling variables as observable behavior, which became the basis for his philosophy called radical behaviorism. While Watson and Ivan Pavlov investigated how (conditioned) neutral stimuli elicit reflexes in respondent conditioning, Skinner assessed the reinforcement histories of the discriminative (antecedent) stimuli that emits behavior; the technique became known as operant conditioning. The application of radical behaviorism—known as applied behavior analysis—is used in a variety of contexts, including, for example, applied animal behavior and organizational behavior management to treatment of mental disorders, such as autism and substance abuse. In addition, while behaviorism and cognitive schools of psychological thought do not agree theoretically, they have complemented each other in the cognitive-behavior therapies, which have demonstrated utility in treating certain pathologies, including simple phobias, PTSD, and mood disorders.

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1. behaviorism

   Behaviorism is a psychological theory and school of thought that emphasizes the study of observable behaviors, especially as they pertain to the process of learning. It asserts that all behavior is learned through interactions with the environment and rejects the idea of innate or inherited behaviors. Behaviorism primarily focuses on observable and quantifiable aspects of behavior, using methods such as conditioning to study the ways in which behaviors change in response to various stimuli.

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1. Behaviorism

   Behaviorism, is an approach to psychology that combines elements of philosophy, methodology, and theory. It emerged in the early twentieth century as a reaction to "mentalistic" psychology, which often had difficulty making predictions that could be tested using rigorous experimental methods. The primary tenet of behaviorism, as expressed in the writings of John B. Watson, B. F. Skinner, and others, is that psychology should concern itself with the observable behavior of people and animals, not with unobservable events that take place in their minds. The behaviorist school of thought maintains that behaviors as such can be described scientifically without recourse either to internal physiological events or to hypothetical constructs such as thoughts and beliefs. From early psychology in the 19th century, the behaviorist school of thought ran concurrently and shared commonalities with the psychoanalytic and Gestalt movements in psychology into the 20th century; but also differed from the mental philosophy of the Gestalt psychologists in critical ways. Its main influences were Ivan Pavlov, who investigated classical conditioning although he did not necessarily agree with behaviorism or behaviorists, Edward Lee Thorndike, John B. Watson who rejected introspective methods and sought to restrict psychology to experimental methods, and B.F. Skinner who conducted research on operant conditioning.

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1. Behaviorism

   A psychologic theory developed by James B. Watson concerned with studying and measuring behaviors that are observable.

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Examples of behaviorism in a Sentence

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   That's the science of behaviorism, which says that you can teach anything by a carefully designed program of step-by-step reinforcement, whenever they become conditioned, the algorithm will discover that and we start removing notifications from their program.

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References

1. ^ Princeton's WordNet
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