behaviourism
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: 1.42 in modern English
22
Scrabble Score
12
Letters
2
Syllables
11
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Example Sentences
- "I come back now to the theory of behaviourism which I spoke of a moment ago. Suppose, e.g., that you are said to believe that there is a train at 10.25. This means, we are told, that you start for the station at a certain time. When you reach the station you see it is 10.24 and you run. That behaviour constitutes your belief that there is a train at that time. If you catch your train by running, your belief was true. If the train went at 10.23, you miss it, and your belief was false. That is the sort of thing that they would say constitutes belief. There is not a single state of mind which consists in contemplating this eternal verity, that the train starts at 10.25."
- "One criticism sometimes made of behaviourism is that it fails to make a distinction between someone actually being in pain and someone pretending to be in pain."
- "On both ways of describing behaviourism, it is agreed that (a) mental states are not inner, categorical states of persons, and (b) what makes psychological claims true are subjects’ behavioural dispositions."
Etymology
Etymology tree English behaviour Proto-Indo-European *-id- Proto-Indo-European *-yéti Proto-Indo-European *-idyéti Proto-Hellenic *-íd͏̌d͏̌ō Ancient Greek -ῐ́ζω (-ĭ́zō) Proto-Indo-European *-mos Proto-Indo-European *-mós Ancient Greek -μός (-mós) Ancient Greek -ισμός (-ismós)der. English -ism English behaviourism From behaviour + -ism.
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logical behaviourism
philosophical behaviourism
analytical behaviourism
analytic behaviorism
analytic behaviourism
analytical behaviorism
behaviorism
behaviourism
philosophical behaviorism