The behaviorists' response to the advent of cognitive psychology has been to ____.?

a. ?attack it by operationally defining the cognitive concepts, as they did when threatened by psychoanalysis
b. ?attack it by subjecting the cognitive psychologists' constructs and hypotheses to experimentation
c. ?undermine the impact of cognitive psychology by redefining its constructs in terms of observable stimuli and responses
d. ?undermine the impact of cognitive psychology by absorbing its terms and tenets into the mainstream, which behaviorism dominates
e. ?hold fast to their position that consciousness (and thus cognitive psychology) should be rejected as a key subject matter


Ans: e. ?hold fast to their position that consciousness (and thus cognitive psychology) should be rejected as a key subject matter

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