behaviorismin a sentence
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Behaviorism is most associated with experiments of Ivan Pavlov on classical conditioning and B.F. Skinner on operant conditioning.
behaviorism = an approach to psychology that emphasizes observable measurable behavior
- A classic example of Watsonian Behaviorism—think I'll write you up and send you to the AMA Journal.† (source)
- I wasn't sure I knew what a behaviorist was, and I didn't want to make him more miserable by asking him.† (source)
- The next thing you know they'll stick me with a behaviorist," he lamented.† (source)
- "But," he would explain, "that dumbbell was trying to put over some behaviorist junk, that all thinking is in words and so it must take place partly in the throat, in the vocal cords—what he said was 'inhibited sub-vocalization.† (source)
- That evening and for the next few days I immersed myself in psychology texts: clinical, personality, psychometrics, learning, experimental psychology, animal psychology, physiological psychology, behaviorist, gestalt, analytical, functional, dynamic, organismic, and all the rest of the ancient and modern factions, schools, and systems of thought.† (source)