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What does behaviorism mean?

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  1. An approach to psychology focusing on observable behavior, denying any independent significance for mind, and usually assuming that behavior is determined by the environment.
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Later reactions against the Canon were a recognition of the intemperance of behaviorism.
Perhaps the two theories that have been most eclipsed by recent developments are Freudianism and behaviorism.
He invented the belief that one can cure an autistic child by using behaviorism.
This is, for instance, the accepted research method in ethology, and behaviorism.
Psychological behaviorism is associationism without appeal to mental events.
He was one of the most extreme precursors of the behaviorism school and the most radical behaviorist in the history of behavioristic psychology.

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