The authors characterize Skinner as “agnostic” on what issue?
a. The relevance of the goings on inside the organism for a science of learning
b. The widespread reliance on negative reinforcement and on punishment for the control of human behavior
c. The distinction between emitted and elicited behavior
d. The categorization of reinforcement and punishment as positive and negative
a. The relevance of the goings on inside the organism for a science of learning
Answer feedback: According to the authors, Skinner was agnostic regarding the necessity of including psychological or physiological (or both) variables in accounting for the relationship between an organism’s behavior and its environment. His agnosticism can be characterized in at least two ways. First, he was unsure of what actually was occurring within the organism. Second, he was unsure of whether efforts to understand what was going on there were reliable and valid.
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