behaviourist

The behaviourist studied the effects of reinforcement on learning.

A behaviourist approach focuses on observable behaviors.

The behaviourist analyzed the behavior patterns of the rats in the maze.

She is a renowned behaviourist in the field of psychology.

The behaviourist used positive reinforcement to train the dogs.

Many behaviourists believe that behavior is influenced by environmental factors.

The behaviourist observed how the children interacted with each other in the playgroup.

The behaviourist conducted experiments to study the behavior of pigeons.

In education, behaviourists emphasize the importance of reinforcement in learning.

The view of the " behaviourists" is that nothing can be known except by external observation.

Progress has not been easy or quick; as the behaviourists warned, both sorts of evidence can be misleading.

Behaviourists had no trouble with fear, seeing it as a conditioned reflex that they knew full well how to create.

It has seemed to the behaviourists that similar methods can be applied to human behaviour, without assuming anything not open to external observation.

I do not myself believe that the analysis of knowledge can be effected entirely by means of purely external observation, such as behaviourists employ.

Animal behaviourists in the UK have reported a surge in requests to help dogs suffering from fear-aggression after their lives have been turned upside down.

The classic research by BF Skinner, the inventor of the Skinner box, the original behaviourist; he had pigeons in a box and they could peck levers and they would get pellets.

It is sometimes suggested, by those who favour behaviourist views, that recognition consists in behaving in the same way when a stimulus is repeated as we behaved on the first occasion when it occurred.

True, we talk a great deal, and imagine that in so doing we are showing that we can think; but behaviourists say that the talk they have to listen to can be explained without supposing that people think.