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...

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

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

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...

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...

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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...

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

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

program. Chomsky also played a pivotal role in the decline of linguistic behaviorism, and was particularly critical of the work of B. F. Skinner. An outspoken...

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

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...

brand of logical behaviorism is not to be confused with the radical behaviorism of B. F. Skinner, or the methodological behaviorism of John B. Watson...

conditions, and viewing behavior as an evolutionarily adaptive trait. Behaviorism is a term that also describes the scientific and objective study of animal...

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

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

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

Urban planning is a technical and political process concerned with the use of land and design of the urban environment, including air, water, and the infrastructure...

dogma of behaviorism as well as the strictures of psychoanalysis. Albert Bandura helped along the transition in psychology from behaviorism to cognitive...

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