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If fruit flies are indeed capable of adapting to their environment, then this would be inconsistent with a behaviouristic interpretation of fluit fly behaviour (i.e., an interpretation which denies that fruit flies possess internal states), but it is perfectly consistent with a deterministic interpretation of their behaviour (as well as being quite irrelevant to the issue of free will).

Archive 2009-05-01 Gordon McCabe 2009

Psychology is only possible as a science (in the naturalistic sense), if it constrains itself to a purely behaviouristic approach.

Demarcation, Demarcation, …. 2006

This essentially behaviouristic account is exactly what the intuition behind the argument is meant to overthrow.

Dualism Robinson, Howard 2007

“… We define altruism and selfishness in purely behaviouristic ways …”.

My Favorite Holiday Treat? Richard Dawkins Mark 2007

They hate over-structured, over-formalised, trainer-centred, behaviouristic training as much as I do.

Archive 2006-01-01 Clive Shepherd 2006

My interest in educational e-learning is that it can teach us a lot about what is wrong with corporate e-learning and how it can be improved - most importantly, the desirability of collaboration and support, the de-emphasising of the importance of content, and the liberalising of the learning experience from authoritarian and behaviouristic models.

Archive 2006-12-01 Clive Shepherd 2006

My interest in educational e-learning is that it can teach us a lot about what is wrong with corporate e-learning and how it can be improved - most importantly, the desirability of collaboration and support, the de-emphasising of the importance of content, and the liberalising of the learning experience from authoritarian and behaviouristic models.

New sources of inspiration Clive Shepherd 2006

They hate over-structured, over-formalised, trainer-centred, behaviouristic training as much as I do.

Beware the 'everybody's doing it' argument Clive Shepherd 2006

In order to understand how social suggestion can have so powerful an effect upon the reactions of the individual, we must revert once more to the principles of behaviouristic psychology.

Taboo and Genetics A Study of the Biological, Sociological and Psychological Foundation of the Family Melvin Moses Knight 1934

That is to say, we will construct, as far as possible, a purely behaviouristic account of truth and falsehood.

The Analysis of Mind Bertrand Russell 1921