Behaviorism is a systematic approach to understand the behavior of humans and other animals. It assumes that behavior is either a reflex elicited by the...

Radical behaviorism is a "philosophy of the science of behavior" developed by B. F. Skinner. It refers to the philosophy behind behavior analysis, and...

Skinner developed behavior analysis, especially the philosophy of radical behaviorism, and founded the experimental analysis of behavior, a school of experimental...

In the philosophy of mind, logical behaviorism (also known as analytical behaviorism) is the thesis that mental concepts can be explained in terms of...

Psychological behaviorism is a form of behaviorism—a major theory within psychology which holds that generally human behaviors are learned—proposed by...

was an American psychologist who popularized the scientific theory of behaviorism, establishing it as a psychological school. Watson advanced this change...

Teleological behaviorism is a variety of behaviorism. Like all other forms of behaviorism it relies heavily on attention to outwardly observable human...

Purposive behaviorism, also known as cognitive behaviorism, is a branch of psychology that was introduced by Edward Tolman. It combines the study of behavior...

operant responses or on the functions of behavior. Neither mentalism nor behaviorism are mutually exclusive fields; elements of one can be seen in the other...

Theoretical behaviorism is a framework for psychology proposed by J. E. R. Staddon as an extension of experimental psychologist B. F. Skinner's radical...

most influential ones and their main founders are:[citation needed]: Behaviorism: John B. Watson Cognitivism: Aaron T. Beck, Albert Ellis Functionalism:...

1960s, and the subsequent merging of the two. Groundbreaking work in behaviorism began with John B. Watson and Rosalie Rayner's studies of conditioning...

titled "Psychologism and Behaviorism". Block did not personally name the computer in the paper. In "Psychologism and Behaviorism," Block argues that the...

structure influence learning. Some psychological approaches, such as social behaviorism, focus more on one's interaction with the environment and with others...

critic of Skinnerian behaviorism and proposed a theoretically-based "New Behaviorism". John Staddon conducted theoretical behaviorism research in adaptive...

the formulation of behaviorism by John B. Watson, which was popularized by B. F. Skinner through operant conditioning. Behaviorism proposed emphasizing...

cognitive science. By the early 1970s, the cognitive movement had surpassed behaviorism as a psychological paradigm. Furthermore, by the early 1980s the cognitive...

See also The verifiability theory of meaning. Sellars, Wilfrid. 1980. "Behaviorism, language and meaning." Pacific Philosophical Quarterly 61:3-30. Skinner...

Metaphysics Atomism Dualism Idealism Monism Naturalism Realism Mind Behaviorism Eliminativism Emergentism Epiphenomenalism Functionalism Objectivism...

behavioralism from behaviorism in the 1950s (behaviorism is the term mostly associated with psychology). In the early 1940s, behaviorism itself was referred...

and operant conditioning to change behavior. Based on methodological behaviorism, overt behavior is modified with (antecedent) stimulus control and consequences...

reasoning. Cognitive psychology originated in the 1960s in a break from behaviorism, which held from the 1920s to 1950s that unobservable mental processes...

centuries have all been variations of physicalism; these positions include behaviorism, the type identity theory, anomalous monism and functionalism. Most modern...

theories: Sigmund Freud's psychoanalytic theory and B. F. Skinner's behaviorism. Thus, Abraham Maslow established the need for a "third force" in psychology...

tasks". George Herbert Mead (1863–1931) developed a theory of social behaviorism to explain how social experience develops an individual's self-concept...

Social conditioning is the sociological process of training individuals in a society to respond in a manner generally approved by the society in general...

mind that gained credence in the 1950s. The movement was a response to behaviorism, which cognitivists said neglected to explain cognition. Cognitive psychology...

works, he founded what is now a branch of psychology known as purposive behaviorism. Tolman also promoted the concept known as latent learning first coined...

the philosophy of pragmatism and social behaviorism. Social behaviorism (as opposed to psychological behaviorism) refers to Mead's concern of the stimuli...

movement in behavior therapy away from methodological behaviorism and back toward radical behaviorism and the use of functional analytic models of verbal...