Many cognitive psychologists spend the majority of their
careers studying the intricacies of human thought, asking and attempting to answer questions about the various processes we use to acquire knowledge and information from the world around us. B. F. Skinner, on the other hand, felt that thinking was merely another learned behavior, and that it was relatively useless to explore it as a process of any true depth. Skinner's simplification of the process of thinking demonstrates which of the six principles of scientific thinking?
A) Occam's Razor
B) Correlation vs. causation
C) Replicability
D) Extraordinary claims
Answer: A
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