The branch of psychology built on behaviorism, the theory of learning that holds that all behaviors are learned through conditioned interaction with the environment, studying observable behavior rather than internal mental states.
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Central QuestionWhat can be learned about behavior by studying only what can be observed and measured, rather than by inferring internal mental states? 1 Key DebateWhether a framework built entirely on observable behavior can account for thought and language at all; the cognitive revolution of the late twentieth century argued it could not, and displaced behaviorism as the field's dominant framework. 1 Behavioral Psychology
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1. Wikipedia: Behaviorism
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Behaviorism is a systematic approach to understanding the behavior of humans and other animals.
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The cognitive revolution of the late 20th century largely replaced behaviorism as an explanatory theory with cognitive psychology.
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Behaviorism is a theory of learning that states all behaviors are learned through conditioned interaction with the environment.
Systematic desensitization (Wikipedia)
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Emerging during the mid-20th century, Wolpe's work aligned with the rise of behaviorism in psychology and represented a shift from psychoanalysis.
Wikipedia: Relational frame theory
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The theory is still somewhat controversial within behavioral psychology, however.
Wikipedia: Acceptance and Commitment Therapy
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ACT has been called a "commonly used treatment with empirical support" within the APA-recognized specialty of behavioral and cognitive psychology.
Wikipedia: Conditioned taste aversion
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Wikipedia: Premack's principle
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Considered one of the justice theories, equity theory was first developed in the 1960s by John Stacey Adams, a workplace and behavioral psychologist, who asserted that employees seek to maintain equity between the inputs that they bring to a job and the outcomes that they receive from it against the perceived inputs and outcomes of others.
Wikipedia: J. R. Kantor
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Jacob Robert "J.R." Kantor (August 8, 1888, Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, 1984, Chicago, Illinois) was a prominent American psychologist who pioneered a naturalistic system in psychology called interbehavioral psychology or interbehaviorism.
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