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PRONUNCIATION OF BEHAVIOURISM

behaviourism  [bɪˈheɪvjəˌrɪzəm] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF BEHAVIOURISM

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Behaviourism is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES BEHAVIOURISM MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Behaviorism

Behaviorism, is an approach to psychology that combines elements of philosophy, methodology, and theory. It emerged in the early twentieth century as a reaction to "mentalistic" psychology, which often had difficulty making predictions that could be tested using rigorous experimental methods. The primary tenet of behaviorism, as expressed in the writings of John B. Watson, B. F. Skinner, and others, is that psychology should concern itself with the observable behavior of people and animals, not with unobservable events that take place in their minds. The behaviorist school of thought maintains that behaviors as such can be described scientifically without recourse either to internal physiological events or to hypothetical constructs such as thoughts and beliefs. From early psychology in the 19th century, the behaviorist school of thought ran concurrently and shared commonalities with the psychoanalytic and Gestalt movements in psychology into the 20th century; but also differed from the mental philosophy of the Gestalt psychologists in critical ways.

Definition of behaviourism in the English dictionary

The definition of behaviourism in the dictionary is a school of psychology that regards the objective observation of the behaviour of organisms as the only proper subject for study and that often refuses to postulate any intervening mechanisms between the stimulus and the response.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH BEHAVIOURISM


adventurism
ədˈvɛntʃəˌrɪzəm
aneurysm
ˈænjəˌrɪzəm
aphorism
ˈæfəˌrɪzəm
asterism
ˈæstəˌrɪzəm
barbarism
ˈbɑːbəˌrɪzəm
consumerism
kənˈsjuːməˌrɪzəm
counterterrorism
ˌkaʊntəˈtɛrəˌrɪzəm
esoterism
ɛˈsɒtəˌrɪzəm
futurism
ˈfjuːtʃəˌrɪzəm
hypopituitarism
ˌhaɪpəpɪˈtjuːɪtəˌrɪzəm
isomerism
aɪˈsɒməˌrɪzəm
mannerism
ˈmænəˌrɪzəm
mesmerism
ˈmɛzməˌrɪzəm
militarism
ˈmɪlɪtəˌrɪzəm
naturism
ˈneɪtʃəˌrɪzəm
plagiarism
ˈpleɪdʒəˌrɪzəm
secularism
ˈsɛkjʊləˌrɪzəm
terrorism
ˈtɛrəˌrɪzəm
Thatcherism
ˈθætʃəˌrɪzəm
voluntarism
ˈvɒləntəˌrɪzəm

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE BEHAVIOURISM

behalf
Behan
behappen
behatted
behave
behaver
behaviorally
behavioristic
behaviour
behaviour modification
behaviour patterns
behaviour therapy
behavioural
behavioural contagion
behavioural science
behavioural sink
behaviourally
behaviourist
behaviouristic
behead

WORDS THAT END LIKE BEHAVIOURISM

adventure tourism
agritourism
agrotourism
amateurism
aneurism
auteurism
dark tourism
ecotourism
epicurism
labourism
pasteurism
prism
purism
scripturism
sex tourism
shamateurism
sinecurism
space tourism
tourism
voluntourism
voyeurism

Synonyms and antonyms of behaviourism in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «behaviourism» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF BEHAVIOURISM

Find out the translation of behaviourism to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of behaviourism from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «behaviourism» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

行为主义
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

conductismo
570 millions of speakers

English

behaviourism
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

behaviourism
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

السلوكية
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

бихевиоризм
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

behaviorismo
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

আচরণবাদ
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

behaviorisme
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Tingkah laku
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Behaviorismus
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

ビヘイビアリズム
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

행동주의
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Tindak tanduk
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

phẩm hạnh tốt
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

நடவடுக்கைக்கொள்கை
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

वर्तणूक
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

davranışçılık
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

comportamentismo
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

behawioryzm
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

біхевіоризм
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

behaviorism
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

behaviourism
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

behaviorisme
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

behaviourism
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

behaviorismen
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of behaviourism

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «BEHAVIOURISM»

The term «behaviourism» is normally little used and occupies the 117.725 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «BEHAVIOURISM» OVER TIME

The graph expresses the annual evolution of the frequency of use of the word «behaviourism» during the past 500 years. Its implementation is based on analysing how often the term «behaviourism» appears in digitalised printed sources in English between the year 1500 and the present day.

Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about behaviourism

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «BEHAVIOURISM»

Discover the use of behaviourism in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to behaviourism and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Psychology for the Classroom: Behaviourism
Through examples drawn from research, presentation of theory, description of pedagogy and illustration by vignette, the book informs teachers and allows them to modify their teaching in order to take account of what is now known about the ...
John Woollard, 2010
2
Behaviourism: The Early Years
First published in 1995. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Robert H. Wozniak, 1995
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From Darwin to Behaviourism: Psychology and the Minds of Animals
This volume surveys the way that understanding of the minds of animals and ideas about the relationship between animal and human behaviour developed from around 1870 to 1930.
Robert Boakes, 1984
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Foreign and Second Language Learning: Language Acquisition ...
Behaviourism. and. second. language. learning. 2.1 Introduction We saw in the previous chapter that before the 1960s, the field of first language acquisition was dominated by behaviourist ideas. These emphasised learning through ...
William Littlewood, 1984
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Bridging Philosophy and Psychology Using the Example of ...
Seminar paper from the year 2004 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Other, grade: 1 (A), Otto-von-Guericke-University Magdeburg (Institute for Foreign Language Philology), course: The Beautiful and the Sublime, ...
Christian Kuhn, 2007
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Evolution and Human Behavior: Darwinian Perspectives on ...
It is just possible that psychology would not have so readily abandoned the evolutionary paradigm if it had had nowhere else to go, but there was an alternative in the form of environmentalism, or more specifically behaviourism. In 1917 ...
John Cartwright, 2000
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Social Theory Today
Behaviourism as first formulated by J. B. Watson and later made more rigorous by B. F. Skinner was once treated as a pariali in psychology and the other social sciences. It is still a pariah to the extent (hat Skinner has continued to make ...
Anthony Giddens, Jonathan H. Turner, 1988
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The Inner Life of a Rational Agent: In Defence of ...
'The Inner Life of a Rational Agent' presents an approach to the philosophy of mind, in which states of mind are identified with dispositions to behave in certain ways.
Rowland Stout, 2006
9
B. F. Skinner: A Reappraisal
Piaget. and. Skinner: Constructivism. and. Behaviourism. RECIPROCAL IGNORANCE Piaget, like Skinner, was one of the prominent figures of mid- twentieth-century psychology. Their scientific production covered roughly the same period, ...
Marc Richelle, 1995
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Behaviour Analysis and Contemporary Psychology
D. E. Blackman University College, Cardiff In this final chapter of Behaviour Analysis an attempt is made to place the preceding contributions in the broad context of contemporary behaviourism. The chapter does not set out to explore further ...
C. F. Lowe, 1985

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «BEHAVIOURISM»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term behaviourism is used in the context of the following news items.
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Canine training, behaviour
Behaviourism is based on fundamental psychological research and the study of dogs in the wild. It is akin to human psychological counselling. «The Swazi Observer, Jun 15»
2
Noah Smith: Finance has caught on to behavioural economics
But while macro has resisted behaviourism, finance has accepted the new ideas without even breaking stride. Behavioural finance chugs along ... «New Zealand Herald, Jun 15»
3
Should we teach our children to share? Or let them work it out …
It's a surprisingly popular idea – and a real shift away from the behaviourism models that suggest children need modelling or direct teaching of ... «Stuff.co.nz, Jun 15»
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Comment: Should we teach our children to share? Or let nature take …
It's a surprisingly popular idea – and a real shift away from the behaviourism models that suggest children need modelling or direct teaching of ... «SBS, Jun 15»
5
Tom Stoppard's new play shows there's more to the mind than we think
Strawson in his TLS piece quotes the philosopher CD Broad, who wrote in 1925 that behaviourism was “a theory which may be held at the time ... «The Guardian, May 15»
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More Human: Designing a World Where People Come First
Hilton sincerely believes in individual empowerment, but wants to achieve it via behaviourism. He's smitten with “new insights drawn from ... «The Register, May 15»
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The Happiness Industry by William Davies, book review: How …
For a long time, behaviourism concentrated on the study of animals, but in the last century this has slowly and remorselessly been extended to ... «The Independent, Apr 15»
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Executive function, a different way to view your child – Charles …
Such as John B. Watson in his book "Behaviourism" (1924), where he argued that give him a dozen healthy infants, he could train any one of ... «The Malaysian Insider, Apr 15»
9
Subject wise - a universal choice
It covers structuralism, functionalism, psychoanalysis, behaviourism, applied psychometry, cognitive processes, paradigms of psychology, basic ... «Times of India, Apr 15»
10
How to discipline your children without rewards or punishment
Behaviourism is associated with conditioning, a process whereby learning is an association between behaviour and good or bad outcome, just ... «Stuff.co.nz, Mar 15»

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