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An advocate of a school of psychology which seeks to explain animal and human behavior entirely in terms of observable and measurable responses to environmental stimuli.

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  • He's been a dog trainer and a behavioralist for more than two decades.
  • I am sympathetic with those who challenge behavioralist on ecological validity.
  • Heart is a rational actor assumption, subject to standard behavioralist critiques of rational actor models.
  • Wesgpc – Those could all be viewed as symptoms of depression, at least from a behavioralist point of view.
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