BEHAVIOURISM


Meaning of BEHAVIOURISM in English

noun

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Extreme behaviourism is normally associated with B. F. Skinner.

In ignoring other dimensions of power, behaviourism was accused of producing a superficial account of the distribution of power.

Moreover, its ranks have been increasingly swelled by deserters from social behaviourism - an evidently liberal position.

One of the main tenets of behaviourism is that behaviour can be shaped through reinforcement by reward.

Other objections to traditional behaviourism can be transferred from their use with other related conceptions, to which we now turn.

The last paragraph sums up a standard hermeneutic objection to behaviourism .

The more literally this is interpreted the more it seems to lead into mechanistic, one-way formulations such as behaviourism .

This constructivist approach is opposed to psychological behaviourism .

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