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A woman experiences high levels of nervousness right before she is to speak in front of a large audience. She decides she can't go through with the speech. She later tells her husband she could not speak because she was anxious. If her husband were B. F. Skinner, how might he respond?
 
  A. Your feelings of anxiety indeed caused you to not speak because they acted like a punishment.
  B. The anxiety is unrelated to the change in your behavior.
  C. The change in your behavior and your feelings of anxiety probably have the same aversive contingencies as a common cause.
  D. Anxious feelings do not exist because we cannot observe them.

Question 2

According to B. F. Skinner, we are mistaken when we look to inner causes for our actions because
 
  A. inner mental states have no impact on behavior.
  B. we have not identified the cause of behavior.
  C. only a few of the most obvious inner states, such as anxiety, can be a cause for our behavior.
  D. subjective feelings are the result of our behavior, not the cause.



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Answer to Question 1

C

Answer to Question 2

B




jhjkgdfhk

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Reply 2 on: Jun 21, 2018
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Reply 3 on: Yesterday
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