Definitions
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun same as
behaviorist .
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun One who studies
behaviour , in humans or animals.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a psychologist who subscribes to behaviorism
- adjective of or relating to behaviorism
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Examples
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Maj-Gen Mackay's paper claims that if the military was to be successful in battle, it had to put more focus on understanding the culture, economy and psychology of the Taliban, using a more "behaviourist" approach alongside its traditional "kinetic" power.
WalesOnline - Home 2010
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Maj-Gen Mackay's paper claims that if the military was to be successful in battle, it had to put more focus on understanding the culture, economy and psychology of the Taliban, using a more "behaviourist" approach alongside its traditional "kinetic" power.
mirror.co.uk - Home 2010
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Maj-Gen Mackay's paper claims that if the military was to be successful in battle, it had to put more focus on understanding the culture, economy and psychology of the Taliban, using a more "behaviourist" approach alongside its traditional "kinetic" power.
icHuddersfield 2010
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In contradiction of the prevailing 'behaviourist' view that language was learned, Chomsky argued that the human mind is actually hard-wired for grammatical thought.
Telegraph.co.uk: news, business, sport, the Daily Telegraph newspaper, Sunday Telegraph 2010
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The author critiques Patrick Seale's masterly biography of Hafez Assad for claiming that "Asad is Syria, and Syria is Asad", however such an attack on the behaviourist approach can only hold water if the work truly managed to propose a different hypothesis.
James Denselow: Power and Policy in Syria: Intelligence Services, Foreign Relations and Democracy in the Modern Middle East James Denselow 2011
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Something which the behaviourist (and Post Keynesist) have been attempting to rectify.
Where is the Failure?, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009
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In behaviourist terms, marriage is a form of mate guarding, ensuring that females don't sneak off in search of better males with better quality sperm, knowing that the mate would rear the results.
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A behaviourist psychologist would probably argue that all subjective mental states, including religious transcendence and, of course, the out-of-body-experience of the traditional shaman, can be reduced to that pulsating mass of nervous tissue we call the brain.
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Notwithstanding the strident claims of behaviourist psychologists in particular, the problem of consciousness remains.
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Waiting to meet me in the park's cafe is Louise Glazebrook, a dog behaviourist who runs the Darling Dogs company.
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