Which Statement Best Characterizes the Textbook Authors' Views with Respect

question 3

Multiple Choice

Which statement best characterizes the textbook authors' views with respect to the legacy of behaviourism?

• A)The principles of behaviourism have been widely and successfully applied to human problems.
• B)The principles of behaviourism ultimately fail because they are not based on carefully controlled laboratory experiments.
• C)Behaviourism has been relatively unsuccessful because it places too little emphasis on determining the antecedents and consequences of behaviour.
• D)Behaviourism has been successful because,unlike other perspectives,it has based most of its conclusions on research with human participants.

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Definitions:

Beck

Aaron T. Beck, a psychiatrist known for developing cognitive therapy, particularly for depression.

Overgeneralizing

A cognitive distortion involving broad, sweeping conclusions based on a single event or piece of evidence.

Selective Abstraction

A cognitive distortion where an individual focuses on a single negative detail or event, often ignoring the broader context of a situation.

Dichotomous Thinking

A cognitive distortion involving seeing things in black and white categories or all or nothing terms, without recognizing the middle ground.