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behaviorism
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Although all the variability in human behavior cannot be explained, behavioristic theory is perhaps the cornerstone of this science.
By the way, in the '40s, when Claude Shannon--the computer scientist who invented binary code--was in search of pictorial means for representing cybernetic processes, he had recourse to this behavioristic experimental model.
Third, as with much of the research grounded in a behavioristic perspective, the specific characteristics of the stimulus, or even the context in which the stimulus occurred, were viewed as somewhat arbitrary.
 
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