Modern Psychology Turned Away from Behaviorism in Its Classic Form

question 50

Multiple Choice

Modern psychology turned away from behaviorism in its classic form for many reasons,including the fact that

• A)classical behaviorism failed to consider the mental processes underlying cognition.
• 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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