Are behavioral perspective and behaviorism the same?

Question

when i surfed the net, it's quite confusing because they quite mixed up these two words.

Answer 1

Gerry Mander pretty much hammered this "Behaviorism, also called the learning perspective, is only one type of psychological perspective, e.g., compare to the cognitive perspective." So, I gave it a thumbs up. Also, how you look at behaviorism is not the behavioral perspective. How you look motivation and learning might be.

  One more point though, behaviorism is also a methodological perspective in that, as Skinner held, it denies the importance of anything but the measurement of behavior.  Skinner was rebutting a trend of the times where introspective reports were being used to explain how people thought. Skinner saw that a lot of "theory" was being built on crappy measurement and interpretation, something that dogs all social science to this day. So, behaviorism is also a belief that only antecedents and consequences that can be directly measured are interpretable. A view like the cognitive view is not able to be so stringent given the nature of the theories that it generates and tests.

  I'm not criticizing the cognition researchers, behaviorism for theory building is dead but very much alive for application.

Answer 2

No.How behaviorism is looked at is the behaviorial perspective.

Answer 3

Behaviorism, also called the learning perspective, is only one type of psychological perspective, e.g., compare to the cognitive perspective.

"The behavioral perspective centers on the idea that psychology should concern itself with measurable physical responses to environmental stimuli. (John Broadus Watson (1878-1958), then a student at the University of Chicago)" (wiki)

"A Harvard University psychologist by the name of B. F. Skinner introduced another aspect of this perspective. He maintained that organisms, when a behavior was reinforced often enough, would learn that behavior."  (wiki)  Thus, he was a behaviorist.

"The future of psychology is often seen as a mixture between cognitive and behavioral therapies."  (wiki)  That is, while the behaviorists believe that the "bad" behavioral tendencies may be removed with training (learning) the cognitivists seek to understand the causes for the bad behaviors and attempt to remove them through understanding the source.

Behaviorism is the same as the Behavioral Perspective.  It is a slang expression of a concept.  Thus a Cognitivist is an adherent of the Cognitive Perspective.

Please be aware that there are many facets to the behaviorist perspective.  In other words, one can be a behaviorist, but differ from every other behaviorist in application of the theory.  But, each one adheres, more or less, to the behaviorist perspective (theory).