Skinner's treatment of personality is unusual because:
a. he did not look for the causes, motives, and drives within people.
b. he approached personality from a physiological viewpoint.
c. he stressed conscious but not unconscious processes.
d. he emphasized the past and the future.
ANS: A
FEEDBACK: In explaining personality, most other theorists look inside the person for clues. The causes, motives, and drives, the forces that direct our development and behavior, originate within each of us. In contrast, Skinner made no reference to internal, subjective states to account for behavior.
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