We get a glimpse of Skinner's view that people operate predictably in his childhood interest of:
a. dissecting frogs and other animals.
b. constructing mechanical devices.
c. listening sympathetically to the fears and worries of his young friends.
d. pretending to be a preacher delivering sermons on hellfire and damnation.
ANS: B
FEEDBACK: The many hours he spent as a child constructing mechanical devices such as wagons and seesaws were prophetic of Skinner's view of people as machines that operate predictably. Skinner also worked on a perpetual-motion machine, which perpetually failed.
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