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RRMR · **on:** Jun 20, 2018

Which statement below summarizes the most important point of Chomsky's criticism of the behaviorist view of language?

a) Behaviorist principles were not defined with sufficient scientific rigor when applied to language
b) Behaviorist principles failed to demonstrate that reinforcement played a role in language.
c) Behaviorist principles failed to consider language as an appropriate activity for study.
d) Behaviorist principles were too strictly applied in the case of language.

Question 2

A student researcher wants to study the effect of ultraviolet light on fruit flies; however, when he proposes his research design.

he states that he cannot have varying treatment conditions because the independent variable is not a type of therapy for the flies. As his advisor, you state that treatment conditions
a) are levels of the independent variable, not necessarily treatment
b) are levels of extraneous variables, not necessarily treatment.
c) only apply to more advanced species, such as humans.
d) only apply to more advanced species, such as mammals.