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ap345

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on: Jun 21, 2018
Operant behavior involves a response made or elicited by a specific stimulus.
 
  Indicate whether the statement is true or false.

Question 2

Skinner's fundamental idea is that the collective unconscious can be set free to increase behavioral responses in the subject.
 
  Indicate whether the statement is true or false.


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Reply #1 on: Jun 21, 2018
Answer to Question 1

ANS: F
FEEDBACK: Skinner distinguished between two kinds of behavior: respondent behavior and operant behavior. Respondent behavior involves a response made to or elicited by a specific stimulus.

Answer to Question 2

ANS: F
FEEDBACK: Skinner's approach to behavior, simple in concept, is based on thousands of hours of well-controlled research. His fundamental idea is that behavior can be controlled by its consequences, that is, by what follows the behavior.


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