Skinner was content to manipulate environmental events (such as reinforcement contingencies) and note the effects of these manipulations on behavior.What is this called?

a. ?functional behaviorism
b. ?radical behaviorism
c. ?descriptive behaviorism
d. ?logical behaviorism


ANSWER:
c

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