Definition of "behaviourism" []

• An approach to psychology focusing on behaviour, denying any independent significance for mind and assuming that behaviour is determined by the environment (noun)

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• "And "behaviourism" (in spite of the artificiality of its constraints) can still be called "science" in the "naturalistic" sense of the word, precisely because it concerns itself (very similar in this respect with Pavlovian reflexology and other forms of "physio-psychology") only with phenomenic and empirical aspect of the object of its study."
• "Social behaviourism embraces a variety of approaches including symbolic interactionism and social action theory."
• "Although this theory is based upon the outdated psychological paradigm ‘behaviourism’ which has been scientifically discredited."