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单词 behaviourism
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Definition of behaviourism in English:

behaviourism

(US behaviorism)
noun bɪˈheɪvjərɪz(ə)mbəˈheɪvjəˌrɪzəm
mass nounPsychology
  • 1The theory that human and animal behaviour can be explained in terms of conditioning, without appeal to thoughts or feelings, and that psychological disorders are best treated by altering behaviour patterns.

    〔心理〕行为主义(理论)

    Example sentencesExamples
    • Psychologists use many different theories - cognitive theory, behaviourism and dynamic theory are just a few.
    • Especially in North America, behaviorism dominated the psychological scene through the 1950s.
    • Like cognitive psychology, activity theory rejects behaviourism and attaches great significance to the cognitive regulation of behaviour.
    • Perhaps the shift from behaviorism to cognitive psychology has given educators a richer vocabulary to describe mental processes.
    • Probably, monogamy is not our natural state; the lessons of animal behaviourism and biology seem to indicate this.
    1. 1.1 Treatment involving the practical application of the theory of behaviourism.
      Example sentencesExamples
      • He invented the belief that one can cure an autistic child by using behaviorism.
      • Not surprisingly, military learning commences on the basis of behaviourism.
      • For years, teachers have been using behaviorism in the form of punishments and rewards to maintain order in their classrooms.

Derivatives

  • behaviourist

  • adjective & nounbɪˈheɪvjərɪst
    Psychology
    • But the behaviourists say that we also ritualise everyday partings.
      Example sentencesExamples
      • This is so much the case that there are now highly qualified psychologists and behaviourists that specialise in the management of change, in teaching us and those that force it upon us how to face the inherent fear we carry.
      • We also have our own animal behaviourist, so if there are problems, she also takes a lot of the dogs in agility training, which is quite amazing because very often it is your most unsociable dog that takes to agility.
      • But details on those are for the behaviourists, and our focus is really our own standard of living.
      • But the behaviourists were doing this to humans too.
  • behaviouristic

  • adjectivebɪheɪvjəˈrɪstɪk
    Psychology
    • This essentially behaviouristic account is exactly what the intuition behind the argument is meant to overthrow.
      Example sentencesExamples
      • Rather, as he pointed out in his reply to Midgley, he gives the word an explicitly behaviouristic definition.
      • Reward and punishment are fine as programming for the behaviouristic instinct animal/robots that we would be without free will.
      • Much of the early psychological theorizing was founded on behaviouristic principles.
      • Answers to such questions have been sought from psychoanalytic theories, from social learning theories, and from various behavioristic approaches to psychology.

Definition of behaviorism in US English:

behaviorism

(British behaviourism)
nounbəˈheɪvjəˌrɪzəmbəˈhāvyəˌrizəm
Psychology
  • 1The theory that human and animal behavior can be explained in terms of conditioning, without appeal to thoughts or feelings, and that psychological disorders are best treated by altering behavior patterns.

    〔心理〕行为主义(理论)

    Example sentencesExamples
    • Probably, monogamy is not our natural state; the lessons of animal behaviourism and biology seem to indicate this.
    • Like cognitive psychology, activity theory rejects behaviourism and attaches great significance to the cognitive regulation of behaviour.
    • Perhaps the shift from behaviorism to cognitive psychology has given educators a richer vocabulary to describe mental processes.
    • Especially in North America, behaviorism dominated the psychological scene through the 1950s.
    • Psychologists use many different theories - cognitive theory, behaviourism and dynamic theory are just a few.
    1. 1.1 Treatment using the practical application of the theory of behaviorism.
      Example sentencesExamples
      • He invented the belief that one can cure an autistic child by using behaviorism.
      • For years, teachers have been using behaviorism in the form of punishments and rewards to maintain order in their classrooms.
      • Not surprisingly, military learning commences on the basis of behaviourism.
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