behaviorism

Skinner and his pigeons, into behaviorism — a school of thought that considered behavior a Rube Goldberg machine of stimulus and response governed by reflex, disregarding interior mental states and emotional response.

From New York Times ● Mar. 26, 2024

Social cooling, coined by Tijmen Schep, is behaviorism 101.

From Seattle Times ● Feb. 22, 2022

Dr. Staats may not have been a household name, at least not beyond the professional circles where he was known for developing a field of study called psychological behaviorism.

From Washington Post ● Jun. 4, 2021

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 ● Jun. 16, 2019

Much of the focus in psychology at the time was around behaviorism.

From "A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age" by Matt Richtel

Small kind behaviorisms are seen in the street very much oftener now than just after the war.

From Time Magazine Archive

Other behaviorisms of this species indicate that it is not territorial.

From Comparative Breeding Behavior of Ammospiza caudacuta and A. maritima by Glen E. Woolfenden

Associated with this high degree of anxiety are displacement behaviorisms, including bill-wiping, reversal of direction on a single perch, and a nervous hopping from one perch to another.

From Natural History of the Bell Vireo, Vireo bellii Audubon by Jon C. Barlow