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- noun Plural form of
behaviorist .
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The primary meeting of behaviorists is the Association for Behavior Analysis, or ABA, which has over 4,200 members in 2003, and at the 2002 meeting there were 3,200 registrants.
Bunny and a Book 2008
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And I don't like the notion of behaviorists messing with my brain pan.
I'm Mad as Hell and I'm Probably Going to Continue to Take It 2010
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And I don't like the notion of behaviorists messing with my brain pan.
Fortune 's Stanley Bing: I'm Mad as Hell and I'm Probably Going to Continue to Take It 2010
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It should be noted that Skinner's views about explanation and the purported circularity of explanation by reference to inner processing are both extreme and scientifically contestable, and that many who have self-identified as behaviorists including Guthrie, Tolman, and Hull, or continue to work within the tradition, broadly understood, including Killeen (1987) and Rescorla (1990), take exception to much that Skinner has said about explanatory references to innerness.
Behaviorism Graham, George 2007
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I sensed that Ted did not appreciate the so-called behaviorists who placed other killers in his class.
The Riverman Robert D. Keppel 2005
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I sensed that Ted did not appreciate the so-called behaviorists who placed other killers in his class.
The Riverman Robert D. Keppel 2005
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I sensed that Ted did not appreciate the so-called behaviorists who placed other killers in his class.
The Riverman Robert D. Keppel 2005
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A much more explicit link between Hobbes and the behaviorists was his materialism, and his attempt to extrapolate the concepts and laws of Galileo's me - chanics to the human sphere.
BEHAVIORISM R. S. PETERS 1968
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What, then, has led people to claim that previous figures in the history of psychology, such as Hobbes and Aristotle, might be termed behaviorists?
BEHAVIORISM R. S. PETERS 1968
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Would they register on the instruments of neuroscientists (if not "behaviorists")?
The Myth of the Computer: An Exchange Dennett, Daniel C. 1982
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