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
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At 35, Salter is an acknowledged master of the behavioristic school's technique.
From Time Magazine Archive
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There were many variations to this behavioristic pattern.
From "Native Son" by Richard Wright
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