Early Behaviorists Used Animal Subjects, Due in Part to Their

question 21

Multiple Choice

Early behaviorists used animal subjects, due in part to their belief that

• A) it is impossible to get accurate data from humans.
• B) research on humans was unethical.
• C) behavioral laws are more or less the same across species.
• D) humans have minds and other species do not.

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Definitions:

Disjunction

A logical operation that combines two statements in such a way that the compound statement is true if at least one of the statements is true.

Contradictory Statements

Statements that cannot both be true at the same time and under the same conditions because they assert opposing propositions.

Conjunction

A logical operator that combines two statements or conditions, both of which must be true for the overall statement to be true.

Equivalent Statements

Statements that are logically similar in that they always have the same truth value in every possible scenario.