| After initially adopting the behavioristic framework that dominated experimental psychology in the United States from the 1920s through the 1950s, Miller came to find it too limiting. |
| Among the behavioristic approaches, three concepts are especially prominent: drive, learned motives, and incentives. |
| He is a grand young southerner and simply knows his behavioristic psychology in a way to make one's hair stand up. |
| Answers to such questions have been sought from psychoanalytic theories, from social learning theories, and from various behavioristic approaches to psychology. |
| These microtheories of motivation are conveniently categorized as falling within three major areas: biological, behavioristic, and cognitive explanations. |
| The behavioristic approach examines how motives are learned and how internal drives and external goals interact with learning to produce behaviour. |
