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Exercise 3
IELTS Reading: true, false, not given
Here's an example reading passage:
Behaviourism is a systematic approach to understanding the behaviour of humans and
other animals. During the first half of the twentieth century, John B. Watson devised
methodological behaviourism, which rejected introspective methods and sought to
understand behaviour by only measuring observable behaviours and events.
It was not until the 1930s that B. F. Skinner suggested that private events
—including
thoughts and feelings
—should be subjected to the same controlling variables as observable
behaviour. This approach became the basis for his philosophy called "radical
behaviourism”. While Watson and Ivan Pavlov investigated the stimulus-response
procedures of classical conditioning, Skinner assessed the controlling nature of
consequences and also their potential effect on the antecedents of behaviour; the
technique became known as operant conditioning.
1. Watson measured both visible behaviour and hidden emotions.
2.
Skinner’s approach differed from that of Watson and Pavlov in that he went beyond
the strictly observable.
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