单词 | neo-behaviourism |
释义 | neo-behaviourismneo-behaviorismn. Psychology and Philosophy. A revived form of behaviourism; spec. any of a number of modifications of the behaviourist theory that human and animal behaviour can be explained in terms of stimulus-response conditioning. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > psychology > behaviourism > [noun] behaviourism1913 behavioural science1937 behaviouristics1941 behaviour-study1953 neo-behaviourism1961 1961 R. M. Williams in M. Black Social Theories of Talcott Parsons 67 Against the vogue of neobehaviorism and elementaristic stimulus-response interpretations, he contends that much behaviour is goal-directed. 1967 Philos. Rev. 76 97 The stimulus-response (S-R) theories of neo-behaviorism. 1974 Philos. Rev. 83 445 Most of the neobehaviorism of recent philosophical psychology results from the effort to substitute an objective concept of mind for the real thing. 1984 Social Psychol. Q. 47 193/1 I now regard the neo-behaviorism of Hull and Spence..as seriously mistaken—mainly because of its naive commitment to positivist philosophy. 1990 E. Harth Dawn of Millennium (1991) v. 75 Such a view corresponds roughly to what is known as ‘neobehaviorism’, which sees the human being..as ‘a puppet controlled by genes and rewards’. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2003; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1961 |
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