A psychological approach that denies the relevance of consciousness for the understanding of human behaviour. It aims at the totally objective study of human behaviour. Based on the work of John Watson, Behaviorism, 1913. ( http://uts.cc.utexas.edu/~kensicki/watson-behav.html). Education examples include competency-based education and skill development.
An approach to changing behaviour based on the assumption that you can never satisfactorily understand people's behaviour. It therefore seeks to change that behaviour without understanding where it comes from. Developed in the 1930s mostly by B. F. Skinner, it remains one of the dominant approaches to managing behaviour in UK psychology.
The school of psychology associated with John B. Watson, who proposed that observable behaviour, not consciousness, is the proper subject matter of psychology. Currently, many who consider themselves behaviourists do use mediational concepts, provided they are firmly anchored to observables.
(Reber) That approach to psychology which argues that the only appropriate subject matter for scientific psychological investigation is observable, measurable behaviour.
an approach to psychology that emphasizes observable measurable behavior
A psychological theory developed by B F Skinner; became the basis for the audio-lingual approach, which viewed language learning in terms of habit formation.
The school of psychology, most famously linked to the studies of B. F. Skinner, which argues that most human behaviour is conditioned or learned, rather than genetic.
A psychological school of thought that focuses on the study of the environmental conditions that cause an individual to behave in particular way. The school was founded by John B. Watson in 1913.
An approach to psychology in which only observable, measurable behaviour is studied. Unconscious processes, such as dreams, have no relevance.
The branch of psychology concerned with the study of observable behaviour rather than unconscious motives. It focuses on the relationship between particular stimuli and people's responses to them.