Which of the following is not a difference between cognitivism and behaviorism?
a. Cognitive psychology is mainly interested in higher mental functions rather than observable behavior, the interest of behavioral psychology.
b. Behavioral psychological research emphasizes research on humans, whereas cognitive psychological research emphasizes animal research.
c. The principal aim of behaviorisistic theories is to determine the existing relationships between behavior and its antecedents/consequences as opposed to cognitive theories' desire to make plausible and useful inferences about the mental processes that intervene between input and output.
d. Cognitive theories tend to be less ambitious in scope than were behavioristic theories.
B
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