行为
All complex behavior can be reduced to simpler stimulus-response units.
The concept of purpose has no place in a scientific account of behavior.
The scientific study of behavior must be based on objective, measurable data.
The laws of behavior can be derived from basic physiological principles.
All behavior is motivated by some form of drive reduction.
The goal of behavior is always the reduction of some drive or need.
Behavior is determined by the interaction of drive and habit strength.
Reinforcement is the central factor in the acquisition of new behavior patterns.
The basic laws of behavior are the same for all organisms.
The environment shapes behavior, but behavior also shapes the environment.
The ideal of behaviorism is to eliminate coercion: to apply controls by changing the environment in such a way as to reinforce the kind of behavior that benefits everyone.
The consequences of an act affect the probability of its occurring again.
The behaviorist cannot find consciousness in the test-tube of his science.
No matter how complex or refined, all behavior is to be explained in terms of stimulus and response.
The mother is the main factor in the child's world. Her behavior creates the behavior of the child.
Thinking is behavior. The muscular habits learned in overt speech are responsible for implicit or internal speech (thought).
The interest of the behaviorist in man's doings is more than the interest of the spectator—he wants to control man's reactions as physical scientists want to control and manipulate other natural phenomena.
The rule, or measuring rod, which the behaviorist puts in front of him always is: Can I describe this bit of behavior I see in terms of "stimulus and response"?
The universe will change if you bring up your children, in behavioristic fashion, to be unafraid.
Psychology as the behaviorist views it is a purely objective experimental branch of natural science.