Claims Quote by Robert A. Heinlein

The behaviorist advances the view that what the psychologists have hitherto called thought is in short nothing but talking to ourselves.

— John B. Watson

Behaviorists tell us that we tend to overweight and overreact to the most recently received information. If we do, we will find that the…

— Robert Haugen

I know a lot of animal communicators and I think a lot of them are just good behaviorists because they pick up on a…

— Temple Grandin

Human nature must not be altered in order to have a problem-free world. Man is not just a problem-solving being, as behaviorists would wish…

— Allan Bloom

I'm all for past influences; the question is whether they are deterministic. Freud and the behaviorists argue that what we are at any given…

— Martin Seligman

“This idea that children won't learn without outside rewards and penalties, or in the debased jargon of the behaviorists, "positive and negative reinforcements," usually…

— John Holt

“Their thinking challenged many notions that were gospel in psychology and among the general public, such as the behaviorist's view that people do things…

— Carol Tavris, Elliot Aronson

Psychology, as the behaviorist views it, is a purely objective, experimental branch of natural science which needs introspection as little as do the sciences…

— John B. Watson

“It happens, therefore, that readers of the book, or of any other book built about a central concept, fall into three mutually exclusive classes:…

— Cassius Jackson Keyser

“Nevertheless, in the field of second and foreign language teaching, behaviorist pedagogy—i.e., direct instruction in various forms—maintains a large following, which seems to grow…

— James Crawford

“In behaviorism, an infant's talents and abilities didn't matter because there was no such thing as a talent or an ability. Watson had banned…

— Steven Pinker

The Behaviorist cannot find consciousness in the test-tube of his science.

— John B. Watson