neo-behaviouristneo-behavioristn.adj.

1941 Science 94 80/2 Their [sc. the early behaviourists'] successors,..the milder ‘neo-behaviorists,’ could not fail to recognize the part which their own conscious selves play in their in their interpretation of their animals' behavior.

1955 H. F. Harlow in D. C. McClelland Stud. in Motivation 219 It is a constant source of bewilderment to me that the neobehaviorists who so frequently belittle physiological psychology should choose apparatus which, in effect, experimentally decorticate [sic] their subjects.

1979 J. R. Anderson & G. H. Bower Human Associative Memory ii. 32 Most ‘neo-behaviourists’..saw the value of intervening variables, and so proceeded to postulate them with abandon.

2000 W. R. Uttal War between Mentalism & Behaviorism iv. 155 It is certainly the case that all neo-behaviourists (new in terms of chronology rather than fundamental conceptual foundations) regularly invoke theories of some kind as well as continuing to champion objective experimentation.

1951 E. F. Brunswik in P. G. Frank Validation Sci. Theories iii. 103 These latter results of behavior [sc. ‘distal’ achievements]..play the dominant role in Darwin's thinking and in such neo-behaviorist systems as that of Tolman.

1964 Listener 14 May 785/2 Watsonian Behaviourism is..the foundation on which the..neo-Behaviourist systems of Professor Guthrie, Clark Hull, and Skinner were built.

1981 Word 32 242 Osgood refers to his neobehaviourist system as a ‘little black egg’.

1999 G. Planck in Y. T. Lee et al. Personality & Person Perception across Cultures ix. 163 Under the influence of the neo-behaviourist tradition..the concept of expectation has been the most powerful cognitive variable predicting motivation and performance to date.