behaviorism

English

Alternative forms

• behaviourism (British spelling)

Etymology

From behavior +‎ -ism.

Noun

behaviorism (countable and uncountable, plural behaviorisms) (American spelling)

1. An approach to psychology focusing on observable behavior which, generally assuming that behavior is determined by the environment and denying any independent significance for mind, largely ignores any pathophysiological processes which may, or may not, underlie subjective, behavioral phenomena.

   Behaviorism is considered by most philosophers of medicine, to be an expression of the weaker, minimalist interpretation of the 'medical model' of clinical psychology because it focuses the study and classification of mental disorders upon a phenomenological, rather than a pathophysiological, approach to the subject.

Synonyms

• behavioral psychology

Hyponyms

• Skinnerism

Derived terms

• neobehaviorism

 

Related terms

• behaviorist
• behavioristic

Translations

approach to psychology focusing on behavior

• Bashkir: бихевиоризм (bixeviorizm)
• Bulgarian: бихевиори́зъм m (biheviorízǎm)
• Catalan: conductisme (ca) m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 行為主義 / 行为主义 (zh) (xíngwéizhǔyì)

• Czech: behaviorismus (cs) m
• Dutch: behaviorisme (nl) n
• Estonian: biheiviorism
• Finnish: käyttäytymistiede, behaviorismi (fi)
• French: béhaviorisme (fr) m, comportementalisme (fr) m
• German: Behaviorismus (de) m
• Greek: συμπεριφορισμός (el) m (symperiforismós)
• Greenlandic: behaviorisme
• Hungarian: behaviorizmus (hu)
• Italian: comportamentismo (it) m
• Japanese: 行動主義 (こうどうしゅぎ, kōdōshugi)
• Kazakh: бихевиоризм (bixeviorizm)
• Korean: 행동주의(行動主義) (haengdongjuui)
• Kyrgyz: бихевиоризм (biheviorizm)
• Malay: ketingkahlakuan, behaviorisme
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: behaviorisme m, adferdspsykologi m, atferdspsykologi m

  Nynorsk: behaviorisme m, åtferdspsykologi m

• Polish: behawioryzm (pl) m
• Portuguese: behaviorismo (pt) m, comportamentismo (pt) m
• Romanian: behaviorism (ro) n
• Russian: бихевиори́зм (ru) m (bixeviorízm), бихевиори́стика (ru) f (bixeviorístika)
• Serbo-Croatian: biheviorizam (sh) m, бихевиоризам m
• Spanish: conductismo (es), behaviorismo m
• Swedish: behaviorism (sv)
• Turkish: davranışçılık
• Ukrainian: біхевіори́зм m (bixeviorýzm)
• Vietnamese: chủ nghĩa hành vi (主義行為)

See also

• depth psychology

Anagrams

• misbehavior

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from English behaviorism, French béhaviorisme.

Noun

behaviorism n (uncountable)

1. behaviorism

Declension

singular only	indefinite	definite
nominative-accusative	behaviorism	behaviorismul
genitive-dative	behaviorism	behaviorismului
vocative	behaviorismule