| Like cognitive psychology, activity theory rejects behaviourism and attaches great significance to the cognitive regulation of behaviour. |
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| In the 1940s, hereditarianism and behaviourism were not independent of each other, but instead fed off each other. |
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| Not surprisingly, military learning commences on the basis of behaviourism. |
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| When behaviourism became the dominant paradigm, there were still psychoanalysts probing the depths of the psyche. |
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| The early formulations of behaviourism were a reaction by U. S. psychologist John B. Watson against the introspective psychologies. |
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| Like hypnosis before it, calescent behaviourism is initially hard to credit, yet, in fifty years' time, we shall probably accept it as a commonplace that man powers his own vehicles by. |
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| Mass society theories and stimuli-response modelling are considered to have been influenced by behaviourism. |
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| The term behaviour refers to the way of behaving whereas the term behaviourism refers to the direction taken by the psychological research initiated by J. Watson and introduced to science in the 20th century. |
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| By looking directly at their brains and bypassing the constraints of behaviourism, MRIs can tell us about dogs' internal states. |
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| Modern behaviourism has its origin in the work of Pavlov, Watson and Skinner. |
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| Most birds living in natural environments have the ability to fly and this differentiates this group of animals from mammals and accounts for its different behaviourism. |
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| The idea that children will stop doing wrong if they are hit for it has been wrongly ascribed a pedigree going back to the great figures in behaviourism and learning theory. |
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| A very readable introduction to learning theory, and particularly good on the work of Carl Rogers, personal construct theory and behaviourism as developed by B. F Skinner. |
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| Behaviourism research involves studying people and animal behaviour as a set of reactions to external stimuli. |
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