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Abbas Rajabpour Posted 5 years ago
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Another way of looking at personality is the behaviorist approach. According to the behaviorists, the inner (1)............of the consciousness are not important. Instead they believed that our behaviors, and therefore our personalities are learned primarily through our experiences. The theories of behaviorism arose through experiments largely on animals in which behaviors were learned through carefully controlled (2).............

1_ facts, assumptions, matters, missions

2_stimuli, judgments, discriminations, conclusions

I know the answers for the blanks are " facts" and " stimuli", but I have no clue what they mean in this very contexts. I wanted to know whether they mean anything specific or what? Thank you very much for your help in advance.

  

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"stimuli" in (2) means actions by the experimenters that are designed to provoke or produce a reaction or response in the subject animals. I would not know whether the answer to (1) was supposed to be "facts" or "matters". "inner facts" apparently refers to the true inner properties or intrinsic nature of the consciousness, as far as I can tell.

— GPY

  • "stimuli" in (2) means actions by the experimenters that are designed to provoke or produce a reaction or response in the subject animals.
  • I would not know whether the answer to (1) was supposed to be "facts" or "matters".
  • "inner facts" apparently refers to the true inner properties or intrinsic nature of the consciousness, as far as I can tell.
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"stimuli" in (2) means actions by the experimenters that are designed to provoke or produce a reaction or response in the subject animals.

I would not know whether the answer to (1) was supposed to be "facts" or "matters". "inner facts" apparently refers to the true inner properties or intrinsic nature of the consciousness, as far as I can tell.

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