B. F. Skinner, a leading behaviorist who explored operant conditioning, believed that inner, private states such as thinking and feeling existed and ____
a. should be analyzed based on introspection
b. viewed them as behaviors that followed the same rules as public behaviors
c. viewed them as behaviors that should be attended to through psychodynamic therapy
d. are a part of what makes a person inherently human and good
ANSWER: b
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a. common sense. b. logical reasoning. c. data and empirical evidence. d. an assumption about how long he will live.
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a. the mode c. the mean b. the median d. the deviation