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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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Perhaps the two theories that have been most eclipsed by recent developments are Freudianism and behaviorism.
Radical behaviorism is concerned with the behavior of organisms, not with internal processing.
Perhaps the shift from behaviorism to cognitive psychology has given educators a richer vocabulary to describe mental processes.
This is, for instance, the accepted research method in ethology, and behaviorism.
There seem to be only two well-known theories from the history of the philosophy of mind that have not been attributed to him, namely behaviorism and functionalism.
Later reactions against the Canon were a recognition of the intemperance of behaviorism.

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