Skinner described personality simply as an accumulation of _____
a. learned responses
c. inherited traits
b. archetypes
d. personal constructs
ANS: A
FEEDBACK: Even inherited facets of personality can be modified, disrupted, prevented, or allowed to flourish by the process of learning. Skinner taught us the value of positive reinforcement, successive approximation, superstitious behavior, and other learning variables in shaping what others call personality, but which he described as simply an accumulation of learned responses.
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