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behavioristic

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be·hav·ior·ism  (b-hvy-rzm)
n.
A school of psychology that confines itself to the study of observable and quantifiable aspects of behavior and excludes subjective phenomena, such as emotions or motives.

be·havior·ist n.
be·havior·istic adj.
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Adj.1.behavioristic - of or relating to behaviorism; "behavioristic psychology"


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Although all the variability in human behavior cannot be explained, behavioristic theory is perhaps the cornerstone of this science.
By the way, in the '40s, when Claude Shannon--the computer scientist who invented binary code--was in search of pictorial means for representing cybernetic processes, he had recourse to this behavioristic experimental model.
Third, as with much of the research grounded in a behavioristic perspective, the specific characteristics of the stimulus, or even the context in which the stimulus occurred, were viewed as somewhat arbitrary.
 
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