The behaviorist theories at the time did well at explaining how the processing of patterns happened.

Confidence in the efficacy of torture is based upon the behaviorist theory of human behavior.

In addition; innate theory is opposed to behaviorist theory which claims that language is a set of habits that can be acquired by means of conditioning.

A more general defense of (1) could also be constructed from James' behaviorist theory of belief.

At the same time, however, he criticizes both Cartesian theory and behaviorist theory for being overly mechanistic.

Behaviorism had dominated the psychology until 1950s when new developments in a variety of fields overturned behaviorist theory in favor of a cognitive theory.

Uh, stick in a restriction not to bother with behaviorist theories.

His groundbreaking work in the 1950's and 1960's was in the field of behaviorist psychological theory, not intelligence.

In this respect, generative grammar takes a point of view different from cognitive grammar, functional, and behaviorist theories.

And rather difficult to explain by behaviorist theory.