A History of 'Behavior' and 'Mind': Use of Behavioral and Cognitive Terms in the 20th Century.

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    • Subject Terms:
      BEHAVIORISM (Psychology); COGNITIVE psychology research; QUANTITATIVE research; HUMAN behavior research; PSYCHOLOGICAL techniques
    • Abstract:
      If we assume that the terms used in a book tend to reflect its orientation, this provides a way to compare the relative trajectories of the influences of cognitivism and behaviorism. In Study 1, we used the search engine Google Ngram to search for the terms behavior and mind in all books printed in English over the period 1900 to 2008. The results for all books tend to support the pattern of standard accounts of the so-called behavioral and cognitive revolutions. In Study 2, we replicated the analysis with a selection of terms specific to behavioral psychology and to cognitive psychology. Again, the results supported the pattern of the so-called behavioral and cognitive revolutions. Neither study showed any indication that cognitivism had replaced behaviorism, although it has in fact overtaken it. The present methodology may open the way for a new quantitative approach to study trends in scientific theories. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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