Definitions for "behaviorist"
a psychologist who subscribes to behaviorism.
A school of thought in psychology which appeared in the 1920s and 1930s. The American psychologist John B. Watson is one of its well-known representatives. It emphasizes objective, observable, and measurable characteristics and excludes emotions, feelings, experience. Organisms are considered to respond to stimuli from the external environment and from their biological functions. In the 1940s and 1950s, the new behaviorism relaxed the deterministic stance of the previous period and attempted to build an empirically-grounded theory of adaptive behavior which allowed room for intervening psychical factors, perception and verbal (nonmeasurable) expressions. B.F. Skinner is among the well-known newer behavioral psychologists. (Adapted from Encyclopedia Brittanica).
one who restricts psychology to objective observation, ignoring introspection and consciousness.
of, pertaining to, or characteristic of behaviorists or behaviorism.
a professional who has been certified by the ABS (Animal Behavior Society)