The approach to studying learning that suggests an exclusive focus on overt, observable, and measurable responses and the discarding of references to inner thoughts, feelings, and motivations is called __________

a. functionalism
b. externalism
c. behaviorism
d. extrinsic exclusivity


Answer: C

Psychology

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