behavioristic
Americanadjective
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Psychology. tending toward or characteristic of behaviorism.
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relating to behavior, especially as studied by psychologists.
Other Word Forms
- behavioristically adverb
Example Sentences
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They look at it from a behavioristic point of view.
From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 7, 2022
Echoing the behavioristic psychology of their time, the machines exploited basic instincts to chase, eat, or startle, making living things into cogs in a process.
From Slate • Apr. 24, 2014
Ivan Petrovich Pavlov, 86, world-renowned Russian physiologist who won the Nobel Prize for medicine in 1904 and went on to lay the cornerstones for modern behavioristic psychology; of influenza; in Moscow.
From Time Magazine Archive
At 35, Salter is an acknowledged master of the behavioristic school's technique.
From Time Magazine Archive
There were many variations to this behavioristic pattern.
From "Native Son" by Richard Wright
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