The authors’ speculative discussion of the S-R and S-S theories of classical conditioning begins and ends with a caveat, namely, that their speculation is unscientific. It is unscientific because
a. it fails to refer to the theories in quantitative terms.
b. it refers to imagined events rather than observed events.
c. classical conditioning is not scientifically respectable.
d. in reality, there is only one theory of classical conditioning.
b. it refers to imagined events rather than observed events.
Answer feedback: The authors assert the impossibility of getting or looking inside an animal’s mind. For that reason, their speculation about what goes on there must remain outside science, which insists on the observability of the phenomena the theory addresses.
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