Watson's Final Position on Instincts Was That

question 12

Multiple Choice

Watson's final position on instincts was that:

• A)human behavior was largely instinctive
• B)humans had only a few powerful instincts
• C)humans were born with powerful instincts but they were soon displaced by learned behavior
• D)humans had no instincts

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Definitions:

Proximate Cause

The primary cause that in a natural and continuous sequence, unbroken by any efficient intervening cause, produces an event and without which the event would not have occurred.

Cause in Fact

A legal principle that establishes an event as the direct cause of an injury, required for proving negligence.

Res Ipsa Loquitur

A doctrine in tort law that infers negligence from the very nature of an accident or injury, in the absence of direct evidence on how any defendant behaved.

Causation

The relationship between cause and effect, where one event (the cause) directly leads to the occurrence of another event (the effect).