Are Behavioral Perspective and Behaviorism the Same?

Question by Regine Yu: Are behavioral perspective and behaviorism the same?
when i surfed the net, it’s quite confusing because they quite mixed up these two words.

Best answer:

Answer by yogiraj
No.How behaviorism is looked at is the behaviorial perspective.

Answer by Gerry Mander
Behaviorism, also called the learning perspective, is only one type of psychological perspective, e.g., compare to the cognitive perspective.

“The behavioral perspective centers on the idea that psychology should concern itself with measurable physical responses to environmental stimuli. (John Broadus Watson (1878-1958), then a student at the University of Chicago)” (wiki)

“A Harvard University psychologist by the name of B. F. Skinner introduced another aspect of this perspective. He maintained that organisms, when a behavior was reinforced often enough, would learn that behavior.” (wiki) Thus, he was a behaviorist.

“The future of psychology is often seen as a mixture between cognitive and behavioral therapies.” (wiki) That is, while the behaviorists believe that the “bad” behavioral tendencies may be removed with training (learning) the cognitivists seek to understand the causes for the bad behaviors and attempt to remove them through understanding the source.

Behaviorism is the same as the Behavioral Perspective. It is a slang expression of a concept. Thus a Cognitivist is an adherent of the Cognitive Perspective.

Please be aware that there are many facets to the behaviorist perspective. In other words, one can be a behaviorist, but differ from every other behaviorist in application of the theory. But, each one adheres, more or less, to the behaviorist perspective (theory).

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