behaviorist
- adjective
- /bɪˈheɪvjərɪst/
- Specialized
- The experiment was designed within a behaviorist framework, focusing only on measurable actions and responses.
There are situations where being behaviorist could help.
- There are situations where being behaviorist could help.
Examples
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Because that doesn't fit into the behaviorist paradigm.
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And that's how I learn language in a classic behaviourist framework.
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There are situations where being behaviorist could help.
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The underlying theory is based on behaviorist psychology, right?
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I did have kind of my behaviourist head on for a minute One we were training.
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While the HOSTS Language Arts Program has a clearly behaviorist theoretical basis, it also draws on elements of social interactional theories of learning and development.
Academic text (2008) -
And again, getting into psychologism and behaviorism, what is it that makes the Turing test a behaviorist test?
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This explains how research questions arising from a behaviorist theoretical framework differ from those stressing the importance of cognition.
Academic text (1994) -
Beyond that, the rhetorical patterning of this passage is of particular importance to Kleist's narrativization of the historical event, since it presents Mirabeau's deed, in a rather behaviorist way, as a mindless act.
Academic text (2009) -
In the classroom, the teacher adopted a behaviorist approach by observing students' actions instead of their thoughts.
Synonyms
About how people or animals act
A way of studying learning that focuses on actions you can see
How Mind-Focused
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Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
The word behaviorist comes from behavior ('what you do') and the ending -ist, like in artist or scientist. As an adjective, behaviorist describes ideas or methods that focus on actions you can see rather than inner thoughts.