behaviorism

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From there, “he segues into an introductory psychology course tackling behaviorism, stereotyping and projection. All the material is enthralling.”

From New York Times

Skinner’s long-prevailing theory of behaviorism, human behavior was regarded as the result of conditioning through positive and negative reinforcement.

From Washington Post

Dr. Staats found behaviorism, on its own, inadequate to explain human behavior in all its complexity.

From Washington Post

This was the rationale behind behaviorism, a now-dead theory of psychology that took this trend to a perverse extreme.

From Scientific American

I reiterated my why-Freud-isn’t-dead argument: yes, psychoanalysis is profoundly flawed, but so are all other paradigms for explaining and treating the mind, from behaviorism to psychopharmacology.

From Scientific American