Watsonianadj.

1923 K. Dunlap Old & New Viewpoints in Psychol. (1925) ii. 54 ‘Behaviorism’ now means the Watsonian view exclusively.

1927 B. Russell Outl. Philos. iii. 41 His [sc. the ape's] behaviour when he had once realised that one stick could be made by joining the two was scarcely Watsonian.

1928 R. Frost Let. 22 June (1964) 188 The logic of religion by nice gradations outside of Catholicism in Protestantism, outside of Protestantism in agnosticism, and finally outside of agnosticism in Watsonian behaviorism.

1960 J. B. Carroll in S. Saporta & J. R. Bastian Psycholinguistics (1961) 333/1 A purely Pavlovian or Watsonian view of language learning has been supplanted generally by some variety of reinforcement theory.

1968 P. McKellar Exper. & Behaviour viii. 218 The stultifying limitation which Watsonian behaviourism imposed upon psychology.

1983 Brit. Jrnl. Psychol. 74 301 Certain influential modern psychologists have singled out attention as an aspect of cognition that fell early to the Watsonian onslaught.

1940 E. C. Bentley Those Days ix. 250 Its [sc. the Sherlock Holmes Society's] annual dinners..were followed by discussions on points of Watsonian chronology.

1960 Encounter Mar. 66/2 Just one more case of Watsonian blackmail.

1968 Listener 4 July 22/1 What the elements of magic in the Holmes stories were, and are, I have never seen analysed. The stilted Watsonian style of sentence structure must be one major element.

1981 P. Craig & M. Cadogan Lady Investigates i. 32 There is no Watsonian colleague to..assist with her cases.