...  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 yogirajNo.How behaviorism is looked at is the behaviorial perspective. Answer by Gerry ManderBehaviorism, 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) Read ...