Multiple choice

Barbara is applying conditioning principles to teach language skills to retarded children. As a psychologist, her point of view appears to be

  1. Freudian

  2. Gestalt

  3. functionalist

  4. behaviourist

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D Correct answer
Explanation

Behaviorism focuses on observable behavior and conditioning principles to modify actions. Using conditioning to teach language skills is a behaviorist approach. Freudian is psychoanalytic, Gestalt focuses on perception and wholes, and functionalism looks at adaptive purposes - none emphasize conditioning like behaviorism.