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behaviorism

/bih-heyv-yuh-riz-uhm/US // bɪˈheɪv yəˌrɪz əm //

行为主义,行动主义,举止主义,行為主義

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  1. 1

    Psychology.

    • : the theory or doctrine that human or animal psychology can be accurately studied only through the examination and analysis of objectively observable and quantifiable behavioral events, in contrast with subjective mental states.

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Examples

  • Even as behaviorism took center stage — Watson wrote a best-selling book on how to raise children based on conditioning principles — some psychologists addressed mental life.

  • His model emerged in a period when the school of thought dominating psychology was behaviorism, which explicitly rejected analysis of what was going on inside the organism, or the brain, in favor of the study of overt behavior.