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The 99 pages that link to Behaviorism, each with the reason it gives.

• Eliminative materialismCompared with: Its rejection of inner-state explanations offers a historical parallel, though not the same scientific proposal.

• Learning theoryNarrower topic: Learning theory supplied behaviorism with mechanisms for explaining behavioral change.

• PhobiaNarrower topic: Learning-based accounts recast phobias as acquired and modifiable responses.

• Self-regulated learningCompared with: Self-regulated learning includes internal goals and monitoring that a strictly behaviorist account does not foreground.

• Abraham MaslowCompared with: Maslow opposed accounts that reduced psychology to observable behavior and conditioning.

• Mind–body dualismCompared with: Its focus on observable conduct contrasts with dualism’s emphasis on private mental reality.

• NativismCompared with: Behaviorist learning accounts often reject appeals to innate mental representations.

• Tabula rasaRelated: Some behaviorist accounts extend blank-slate thinking to explain behavior through learning and environment.

• Transformational grammarCompared with: Chomsky argued that language acquisition could not be adequately explained by stimulus-response learning alone.

• Hilary PutnamCompared with: Functionalism preserves internal states while rejecting behaviorism’s equation of mind with observable behavior.

• Leonard BloomfieldRelated: Bloomfield drew on behaviorist assumptions when restricting linguistic explanation to observable evidence.

• Social constructivismCompared with: Its focus on stimulus and response contrasts with social accounts of meaning-making.

• Tinbergen's four questionsCompared with: Behaviorist accounts often emphasize mechanisms and development while leaving evolutionary history and function aside.

• VerstehenCompared with: Behaviorism brackets subjective meaning, the very evidence Verstehen seeks to interpret.

• Max WertheimerCompared with: Wertheimer’s interest in organized experience differed from behaviorism’s focus on observable responses.

• New ThoughtCompared with: Its methodological focus on observable behavior differs from New Thought’s emphasis on spiritual thought.

• Edward B. TitchenerCompared with: Its rejection of introspection displaced the kind of method Titchener defended.

• Psychosocial developmentCompared with: Behaviorism restricts explanation to observable learning more than broad lifespan psychosocial accounts do.

• Child-centered educationCompared with: Its emphasis on observable responses differs from approaches centered on learners’ interpretation and interests.

• Folk psychologyCompared with: It contrasts with explanations that cite beliefs, desires, and intentions.

• Phallic stageCompared with: Its emphasis on measurable behavior contrasts with Freud’s unconscious conflicts.

• Rollo MayCompared with: May opposed theories that leave out subjective meaning, freedom, and the person’s lived experience.

• Steven PinkerCompared with: Pinker rejects behaviorist accounts that treat language as learned imitation and reinforcement alone.

• A Clockwork OrangeRelated: The Ludovico treatment dramatizes behaviorist control as a political tool.

• AndragogyCompared with: Behaviorist accounts foreground reinforcement, unlike andragogy’s emphasis on experience and learner agency.

• Anthony BurgessCompared with: The state’s treatment of Alex dramatizes the danger of replacing choice with conditioning.

• Clark L. HullNarrower topic: Hull sought to give behaviorism precise laws and testable mathematical form.

• Ego psychologyCompared with: It rejects the unconscious psychic agencies central to ego-psychological explanation.

• Mind (mental faculty)Compared with: It challenges explanations that make unobservable mental states their foundation.

• Philosophy of educationCompared with: Its focus on measurable behavior differs from educational philosophies centered on meaning or autonomy.

• Psychoanalytic theoryCompared with: Behaviorism rejects the theory’s reliance on unconscious mental explanations.

• Three Essays on the Theory of SexualityCompared with: Its emphasis on learning contrasts with Freud’s account of unconscious sexual development.

• Animal psychologyCompared with: Its challenge to studying unobservable minds shaped animal research methods and theory.

• Functional psychologyCompared with: Behaviorists rejected much functionalist reliance on consciousness and introspective reports.

• George C. HomansRelated: Homans adapted its account of reinforcement to explain social interaction.

• History of psychologyCompared with: Behaviorism rejected consciousness as psychology’s primary subject, challenging earlier introspective schools.

• Human behaviorCompared with: Its focus on observable action contrasts with broader accounts that include internal processes.

• Kurt KoffkaCompared with: Koffka’s emphasis on organized experience differed from behaviorism’s restriction to observable behavior.

• Willard Van Orman QuineRelated: Quine’s account of language learning emphasized observable behavior and prompted debate about its limits.

• Charles Horton CooleyCompared with: Cooley’s account depends on imagined judgments and self-interpretation, which strict behaviorism leaves aside.

• ConnectivismCompared with: Connectivism centers changing networks rather than learned stimulus-response patterns.

• Harry Stack SullivanCompared with: Sullivan’s clinical theory interpreted communication and behavior through inferred interpersonal meanings.

• Behavior and Behavior MechanismsCompared with: It offers a narrower account than the category's inclusion of biological and psychological mechanisms.

• Behavioural geneticsCompared with: Its historical emphasis on environmental learning contrasts with behavioral genetics' focus on inherited variation.

• Mary MidgleyCompared with: Its restrictive account of mind conflicts with her emphasis on imagination, motives, and animal experience.

• Neo-FreudianismCompared with: Its rejection of psychoanalytic explanation marks a sharper alternative than Neo-Freudian revision.

• PsychodynamicsCompared with: It contrasts with psychodynamics by limiting explanation based on unconscious motives.

• Psychological phenomenaCompared with: It emphasizes observable behavior rather than private mental experience.

• Social pedagogyCompared with: Social pedagogy emphasizes meaning, relationships, and agency beyond behavior modification alone.