Explore Behaviorist through 10+ example sentences from English, with an explanation of the meaning and related words like behaviourist or psychologist. Ideal for language learners, writers and word enthusiasts.
Behaviorist meaning
One who studies behavior of humans or animals.
Synonyms of Behaviorist
Using Behaviorist
- The main meaning on this page is: One who studies behavior of humans or animals.
- Useful related words include: behaviourist, behavioristic, behaviouristic, experimental psychology.
- In the example corpus, behaviorist often appears in combinations such as: the behaviorist.
Context around Behaviorist
- Average sentence length in these examples: 19.5 words
- Position in the sentence: 6 start, 5 middle, 0 end
- Sentence types: 11 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Behaviorist
- In this selection, "behaviorist" usually appears near the start of the sentence. The average example has 19.5 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, methodological, meanwhile, psychology, insists and theories stand out and add context to how "behaviorist" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include 332 often behaviorist experiments using and a behaviorist with a. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "behaviorist" sits close to words such as aadi, aayush and abbottabad, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with behaviorist
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
A behaviorist with a beating heart. (6 words)
The shaping of a behaviorist: Part two of an autobiography. (10 words)
I was a behaviorist, and I worked at all the school sites in the district. (15 words)
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. (34 words)
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. (28 words)
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. (26 words)
Example sentences (11)
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.
Common combinations with behaviorist
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts: