Behaviorism emphasizes the need for measurable behaviors to confirm learning [ 10].
Poshmark, a fashion app that enables users to sell their clothing directly to other users, takes what people do offline and heightens the experience with more measurable behaviors.
Reading through the thousands of comments to the many blog posts on the Trayvon Martin case, it is obvious that there is a huge gap in our understanding of the hard facts (observable, measurable behaviors) and soft facts (psychological behaviors and lived experience) of this case.
However, a thorough characterization of all measurable behaviors during fear conditioning and extinction in the future will undoubtedly be informative.
The author believes that the nature of competence in nursing education is considerably more complex than can be captured in observable, measurable behaviors.
A recent study by Olmarker [ 8] indicates that a rat model with measurable pain behavior may be suitable for studying discogenic back pain.
They reported that disk puncture with a needle (0.4 mm in diameter) in rats induced measurable pain behavior with increased grooming and whole-body ("wet dog") shaking.
And it has been a decade since Columbia University psychologists went through more than 80 studies over 62 years and found that there was a "strong correlation" between parents who used "corporal punishment" and children who demonstrated 11 measurable childhood behaviors.
Self-efficacy has been shown to be a causal mechanism in a wide range of health behaviors, a measurable trait that predicts behavior across domains, which is strong associated with psychological variables.
Furthermore, theories specifying modifiable and measurable determinants of behavior provide an opportunity to improve the mechanisms underlying behavioral performance, which allows for identifying why an intervention was more or less effective in changing behavior for future intervention efforts (11).
As time passed, seeking to understand abstract psychological concepts like fear and anxiety, he turned his attention to measurable aspects of behavior and to the physical workings of the brain.
