behaviorism

Examples

• All

• When using behaviorism, the educator must find a way to reinforce the desired behavior.

  Academic text (2003)

• Behaviorism, cognitivism, and constructivism provide a general explanation of the nature of knowledge and how people learn.

  Academic text (2005)

• We have certainly come a long way from behaviorism, and yet some might question why it took us so long.

  Academic text (2006)

• There is much in behaviorism to be supported in traditional education.

  Academic text (2006)

• Are we losing something by casting off the insights of behaviorism in the modern world?

• Behaviorism is a common lens through which to interpret these experiences.

  Academic text (2012)

• In psychology, it included behaviorism, a radically anti-genetic theory of human behavior and response.

  Academic text (2017)

• At the moment, the most important mainstream approaches in psychology are behaviorism, cognitive psychology, and psychoanalysis.

  Academic text (1992)

• Existential themes in education collide head-on with the influences of traditional philosophy and behaviorism on American education.

  Academic text (1990)

• In modern psychology, behaviorism focuses on how behaviors can be measured and modified through conditioning.

Synonyms

B

behavioristic psychology

vsbehaviorism

• Specialized

7.4

A way of studying people and animals that focuses on actions you can see and measure, not thoughts or feelings

is the general label for that psychological approach

B

behavioralism

vsbehaviorism

• Specialized

8.1

A way of studying people in social science that looks at actions you can see not their thoughts

is focused on psychology rather than on broader social science use

Surface Forms

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Etymology