behaviorism

English

Alternative forms

• behaviourism (British spelling)

Etymology

(deprecated template usage)

behavior +‎ -ism

Noun

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

1. An approach to psychology focusing on observable behavior, denying any independent significance for mind, and usually assuming that behavior is determined by the environment.

Synonyms

• behavioral psychology

Hyponyms

• Skinnerism

Related terms

• behaviorist
• behavioristic

Translations

approach to psychology focusing on behavior

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

  Mandarin: 行為主義／行为主义 (zh) (xíngwéizhǔyì), 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
• Greenlandic: behaviorisme
• Hungarian: behaviorizmus (hu)
• Italian: comportamentismo (it) m
• Japanese: 行動主義 (こうどうしゅぎ, kōdōshugi)
• Korean: 행동주의 (haengdongjuui) (行動主義)
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• Malay: ketingkahlakuan, behaviorisme
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: behaviorisme m, adferdspsykologi m, atferdspsykologi m

  Nynorsk: behaviorisme m, åtferdspsykologi m

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

See also

• depth psychology

Anagrams

• misbehavior

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Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from English behaviorism, French béhaviorisme.

Noun

behaviorism n (uncountable)

1. behaviorism

Declension

declension of behaviorism (singular only)

	singular
n gender	indefinite articulation	definite articulation
nominative/accusative	(un) behaviorism	behaviorismul
genitive/dative	(unui) behaviorism	behaviorismului
vocative	behaviorismule