According to behaviorists and neobehaviorists, the ultimate purpose of research on learning was to understand __________.
a. the building blocks of conscious experience
b. the acquisition of behavior by conditioning
c. performance, rather than learning
d. memory, rather than cognition
Question 2
Which of the following does NOT challenge a pure behaviorist perspective?
a. demonstrated effects of attention
b. the role of vigilance in a skilled performance task
c. language
d. incorporating Pavlov's work on classical conditioning
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