Skinner argued that psychologists must restrict their investigations exclusively to:

a. overt responses made by a subject.
c. future goals and aspirations.
b. sexual and aggressive conflicts.
d. lower and higher needs.

ANS: A
FEEDBACK: Skinner argued that psychologists must restrict their investigations to facts, to only what they can see, manipulate, and measure in the laboratory. That meant an exclusive emphasis on the overt responses a subject makes and nothing more.

Psychology

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