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behaviorist

[ US /bɪˈheɪvjɝɪst/ ]
NOUN
  1. a psychologist who subscribes to behaviorism
ADJECTIVE
  1. of or relating to behaviorism
    behavioristic psychology

How To Use behaviorist In A Sentence

  • But the behaviourists say that we also ritualise everyday partings.
  • But he is easily the most visible behaviorist, based on citation frequency and surveys of influential behavioral scientists.
  • Under the headship of the neo-behaviorist Kenneth W. Spence, it led America in the production of psychology doctorates for many years.
  • The animal behaviorist may be able to cue in on unique characteristics of your dog's behavior and help you set up training situations that will be most effective.
  • It attempts to classify the sports leaning structure for different learning steps, and furthermore to relate them with the behavioristic association theory and cognitive learning theory.
  • Arguing over such things and what they mean is great fun, so it's disappointing, part-way into "Mind Over Money," to see the show staggering toward a pit of ancient dung about an alleged struggle between economists who believe in efficient markets and study price signals, and behaviorists who study examples of seemingly nonrational economic behavior, such as "present bias. Too Crazed to Trade?
  • During this period, he became a leading figure in US linguistics, replacing a mechanistic and behaviouristic view of language with a mentalistic and generative approach.
  • This technique of free association is a contribution to psychology which is used widely by psychotherapists, including behaviourists.
  • One might think that radical behaviourists such as Skinner would advocate the classification of stimuli along purely physical dimensions.
  • In the metaphysics of mind, too, behavioristic themes survive in the approach to mind known as functionalism.
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