Modern Psychology Turned Away from Behaviorism in Its Classic Form

question 24

Multiple Choice

Modern psychology turned away from behaviorism in its classic form because

• A) human behavior is routinely determined by our understanding of stimuli.
• B) humans are more similar to computers than to other species studied in the laboratory.
• C) psychology rejected behaviorism's emphasis on an organism's subjective states.
• D) an organism's behavior can be changed by learning.

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