The major shortcoming of the instinct concept is that
a. instincts have never been shown to exist in any species.
b. the instinct concept is too complex an explanation of most motivated behavior.
c. asserting the existence of an instinct does not help us to understand the behavior in question.
d. it is too physiological in theoretical orientation.
c
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