Recall Your Text's Discussion of the Behaviorist Perspective in Chapter

question 97

Multiple Choice

Recall your text's discussion of the behaviorist perspective in Chapter 1. According to your text, "Skinner argued [that] empirical - observable - information should be gathered first, and then theories . . . could be formulated from that." Skinner is endorsing _____ reasoning, promoted early on by _______.

• A) inductive; Bacon
• B) inductive; Descartes
• C) deductive; Bacon
• D) deductive; Descartes

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Definitions:

Ego State

A data concerning psychological states associated with different aspects of the self, including the parental, adult, and child ego states in transactional analysis theory.

Flexibly Switches

The ability to adapt or change between different tasks, thoughts, or behaviors efficiently and appropriately.

Interpersonal Psychotherapy

Interpersonal Psychotherapy is a time-limited, focused approach that addresses interpersonal issues in depression, linking mood to relationship conflicts and social dysfunction.

Psychological Disorders

Conditions that affect an individual's thinking, feeling, mood, or behavior, which may be persistent, relapsing, and remitting, or occur as a single episode.