According to the discussion about the rise of cognitive psychology,
a. enthusiasm for behaviorism decreased because it was difficult to explain complex human behavior using only the concepts from learning theory.
b. Piaget's research on children's thinking was actually ignored until cognitive psychology was well established in the 1970s.
c. modern linguistics favors behaviorism rather than cognitive approaches.
d. behavioral approaches to human memory are still more widely accepted than cognitive approaches.
Ans: a
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