Skinner believed that behavior can be controlled by:
a. its consequences.
b. social learning.
c. respondent conditioning.
d. the reinforcement that precedes the behavior.
ANS: A
FEEDBACK: Skinner's fundamental idea is that behavior can be controlled by its consequences, that is, by what follows the behavior. He believed that an animal or a human could be trained to perform virtually any act and that the type of reinforcement that followed the behavior would be responsible for determining it.
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