Behaviorists would describe personality as the
a. expression of conflicting psychological forces.
b. collection of learned patterns of behavior.
c. impact of culture on an innate hierarchy of needs.
d. behavioral expression of fixed action patterns.
ANSWER: b
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We do not see the blood vessels and neurons that lie in front of the photoreceptors because
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