Behaviorist

As one of the main artificial intelligence algorithms, reinforcement learning is inspired by behaviorist psychology, concerned with how software agents ought to take actions in an environment to maximize some notion of cumulative reward.

I was a behaviorist, and I worked at all the school sites in the district.

A behaviorist with a beating heart.

At the moment we must content ourselves, as the methodological behaviorist insists, with a person's genetic and environment histories.

Behaviorist theories Behaviorists explain personality in terms of the effects external stimuli have on behavior.

However, some argue that Wittgenstein is basically a behaviorist because he considers facts about language use as all there is.

Meanwhile, behaviorist researchers used simple dichotomous models (pleasure/pain, reward/punishment) and well-established principles such as the idea that a thirsty creature will take pleasure in drinking.

The shaping of a behaviorist: Part two of an autobiography.

Thus, the behaviorist closes the conceptual gap between behavior and mentality which is responsible for the epistemological problem.

Watson believed the behaviorist view is a purely objective experimental branch of natural science with a goal to predict and control behavior.

Young, P. T. (1936). p. 332 Often, behaviorist experiments using humans and animals are built around the assumption that subjects will pursue pleasure and avoid pain.