| 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. |
| These microtheories of motivation are conveniently categorized as falling within three major areas: biological, behavioristic, and cognitive explanations. |
| Some of the most influential modern critics, notably I. A. Richards in his early works, have accepted this value order and have confined themselves to behavioristic study of how literature stimulates the reader's feelings. |
| In the metaphysics of mind, too, behavioristic themes survive in the approach to mind known as functionalism. |
| The behavioristic approach examines how motives are learned and how internal drives and external goals interact with learning to produce behaviour. |
