B. F. Skinner was an American behaviorist who believed that ______ conditioning explained much of human behavior

Fill in the blank with correct word


operant

Psychology

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A person's physiological or cognitive characteristics that may help the therapist in understanding problems and help to determine treatment are

a. preliminary variables. b. organismic variables. c. conditional variables. d. behavioral variables.

Psychology

If we looked at the death records for a large city, we would probably find that suicide was most common among ____

a. Hispanic Americans b. elderly white men c. middle-aged women d. young white females

Psychology

An important concern with indirect measures of behavior relates to ____

a. the cost of instrumentation b. the lack of informed consent c. inter-rater reliability d. problems with validity

Psychology

After being subjected to six months of continual beatings, loss of sleep, and starvation at the hands of their captors, the crew members of the submarine sign false confessions regarding the "war crimes" that their captors say they have committed. This second phase of brainwashing is known as

a. freezing. b. unfreezing. c. change. d. resolution.

Psychology