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  1. behavioristic: of or relating to behaviorism; "behavioristic psychology"
  2. a psychologist who subscribes to behaviorism
  3. (Behaviorism) The study of behavior, especially using operant conditioning.
  4. (Behaviorism) A school of psychology that confines itself to the study of observable and quantifiable aspects of behavior and excludes subjective phenomena, such as emotions or motives. Also called behavioral psychology.
  5. (behaviorism) A theory suggesting that learning occurs when an environmental stimulus triggers a response or behavior. Based on classical conditioning theory, behaviorism applies to educational practices that reward performance behaviors to encourage repetition of those behaviors. ...
  6. (BEHAVIORISM) Theory of learning that stresses the importance of having a particular form of behavior reinforced by someone, other than the student, to shape or control what is learned.
  7. (Behaviorism) A physicalist view that mental properties could be identified with behaviour or tendencies to act in certain ways under certain conditions. Three forms of behaviourism may be identified-ontological, logical and methodological. ...
  8. (Behaviorism) A psychological theory that regards actions as the consequence of measurable, conscious factors (e.g., conflict, conditioning, stimuli, reward systems).
  9. (Behaviorism) A sociological school which asserts that human minds are not capable of making rational choices. It studies human action according to the methods of animal and infant psychology. ...
  10. (Behaviorism) A theory that argues that pattern behavior is not biologically determined, but learned.
  11. (Behaviorism) Show me. If you can't show me a change in behavior, nothing was learned. A vital aspect of rat-maze psychology.
  12. (Behaviorism) The notion that all human action is a conditioned response to external, environmental stimuli.
  13. (Behaviorism) The psychology of learning which emphasizes environmental influence on learning as stimuli, reinforcement, for the environmental variables and responses for the learning that take place
  14. (Behaviorism) The viewpoint that holds that the appropriate subject matter for psychology is behavior and the appropriate method for study and application are the methods of natural science (objective measurement, ability to duplicate experimentation, etc.). ...
  15. (Behaviorism) the contemporary American philosophy which abandons the concepts of mind and consciousness and restricts both animal and human psychology to the study of behavior; an ethical system by which ethical behavior is predetermined by either genetic or conditional factors.
  16. (Behaviorism) was developed with the mandate that only observations that satisfied the criteria of the scientific method, namely that they must be repeatable at different times and by independent observers, were to be admissible as evidence. ...
  17. (behaviorism) Follows the traditions of Pavlov, Watson, Thorndike, and Skinner by viewing behavior as a result of stimulus-response. (See Moore & Kearsley (1996) p. 204, for implications to distance education)
  18. (behaviorism) View that reduces talk of mental states to talk of behavioral dispositions.
  19. (behaviorism) a school of thought in psychology emphasizing the importance of overt behavior responses over conscious experience for understanding human social interactions
  20. Someone who specializes in analyzing the functions of difficult or challenging behaviors and in designing and implementing treatment programs for such behaviors.
  21. The person responsible for developing and implementing individualized plans, in various settings, for adults with developmental disabilities, for the purpose of enhancing learning of positive and functional behaviors.
  22. Behavior therapy  · Cognitive therapy · Cognitive behavioral therapy  · Rational emotive behavior therapy