How to Use behaviorism in a Sentence
behaviorism
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Unfortunately, these moments weren’t seen as just the behaviorisms of a 20-year-old girl, they were seen as dangerous or villainous.
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Stephen Schaefer,
Boston Herald,
17 Aug. 2025
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The cognitive revolution did not establish a single theory of how the mind works, nor did behaviorism disappear.
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Encyclopedia Britannica,
8 Sep. 2026
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One approach to understanding them, probing what goes in and what comes out, resembles behaviorism, a once-dominant field of psychology that studied only observable behavior.
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Arryn Robbins,
The Conversation,
7 Oct. 2026
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The black box model is related to the black box theory of behaviorism, where the focus extends beyond processes occurring inside the consumer, including the relation between the stimuli variables and the consumer’s response.
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Félix Ortega Mohedanoall,
Encyclopedia Britannica,
27 Apr. 2026
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From behaviorism to cognition During much of the first half of the 20th century, behaviorism strongly influenced American psychology.
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Encyclopedia Britannica,
8 Sep. 2026
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