According to the Authors of Your Text, Why Did Behaviorists

question 108

Multiple Choice

According to the authors of your text, why did behaviorists not incorporate cognition, thinking, and feeling into their theory?

• A) There was no empirical support that these concepts mattered.
• B) They used strictly animal models for most of their theories.
• C) They considered the concepts too vague and difficult to observe.
• D) The theory could become too complex to study empirically.

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Definitions:

Autopsy

A post-mortem examination to discover the cause of death or the extent of disease.

Research Design

A structured plan that outlines how a study will be conducted to investigate a particular problem or hypothesis.

Quasi-Experiment

An empirical study that appears to involve some, but incomplete, experimental control (e.g., through nonrandom assignment of participants to conditions).

Clinical Interview

A research paradigm in which an investigator begins by asking participants a series of open-ended questions but follows up on the responses with specific questions that have been prepared in advance.