Definition of behaviouralism in English:
behaviouralism
(US behavioralism)
nounbɪˈheɪvjərəlɪz(ə)mbiˈhāvyərəˌlizəm
mass noun1The methods and principles of the scientific study of animal (and human) behaviour.
Example sentencesExamples
- To teach parents using psychological behavioralism?
- But both theories are grounded in behavioralism.
- His approach is a mix of animal behavioralism and human psychology with a little eastern philosophy and spirituality thrown in.
- 1.1 Advocacy of or adherence to a behavioural approach to social phenomena.
Example sentencesExamples
- In some respects, the so-called new institutionalism was a rebellion against behaviouralism.
- Secondly, behavioralism is one of the best research objects to understand the nature of political science and conceptual change within the discipline.
- By exploring the nature of power, some of the weaknesses of the objective analysis of behaviouralism can be identified.
- Behavioralism established an agreed upon methodology (modeled after the natural sciences) which was (ostensibly) value free and emphasized quantification toward the end of generating covering laws to aid in predicting political behavior.
- But what I do know is that behavioralism doesn't undermine law and economics - if anything, it enriches it.
- Now there's a name for this kind of approach in political science - behavioralism.
Derivatives
noun & adjective
I shall leave it to others to use a behavioralist sampling and questionnaire method to confirm it.
Example sentencesExamples
- Neorealists responded that behaviouralists had failed to appreciate the essential characteristics of a systemic theory.
- At the same time, new institutionalism recognized that formal institutions were more important than behaviouralists had suggested.
- This is a nice piece, which summarizes the behavioralist theory and its implications pretty well for laymen.
- For behaviouralists, institutions were relatively uninteresting compared to the behaviour of political actors.