Behaviourism
noun
a school of psychology that regards the objective observation of the behaviour of organisms (usually by means of automatic recording devices) as the only proper subject for study and that often refuses to postulate any intervening mechanisms between the stimulus and the response
the doctrine that the mind has no separate existence but that statements about the mind and mental states can be -n-lysed into statements about actual and potential behaviour compare materialism (sense 2) see also mind-body problem
historical examples
the -n-lysis of mind bertrand russell
the -n-lysis of mind bertrand russell
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