# Behaviorism **Domain:** Psychology / Learning Theory **Doc Type:** Theory Node **Maturity:** Developing **Related:** [[B. F. Skinner]], [[Programmed Instruction]], [[Pavlovian Psychology]], [[Russia and Prussia Kybernetiks]] --- ## Definition A psychological tradition emphasizing observable behavior, environmental contingencies and learning through conditioning. ## Kybernetiks Context The article contrasts the behaviorist branch of programmed instruction with Soviet and German cybernetic models of learners as information-processing systems. ## Backlinks [[Russia and Prussia Kybernetiks]] · [[articles/Russia and Prussia Kybernetiks|Russia and Prussia Kybernetiks]] ## Schedule–Loop Context [[Schedule and Loop]] places behaviorism's scalable peripheral control beside cybernetics' model-based loop. The two cease to be rivals when a machine uses rich internal models to administer individualized reinforcement schedules.