Behaviorism

Behaviorism (or behaviourism), also called the learning perspective (where any physical action is a behavior), is a phicology of philosofy based on the proposition that all things that organisms do including acting, thinking and feeling can and should be regarded as behaviors , and that psychological disorders are best treated by altering behavior patterns.

Is  a principle of scientific method: a rule which says that the only things that may be used to confirm or refute a scientific theory are interpersonally observable phenomena rather than say,people's introspections or intitutions.

Is primarily concerned with observable behaviour, as opposed to internal events.


Behaviourims in this methodological sense is wholly desirable. Although I have poited out,above, that logical positivism is no longer the regning pholosophy of science, the arguments for behaviorist method are unaffected by the fall of positivism.


Many behaviourist pschologist, however, consufed the methodological issue with a matter of substantive belief. this attitude on the part of some behaviourist is illogical and laughable when as sometimes it leads to the spectacle of the psychologist heroically trying to convince himself that he really is the mindless zombie which he thinks he ought to be.