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This solution helps answer the following questions about behaviorism theory with references.

1. What is the implicit epistemology of behaviorism?

2. What are the core values of this theory?

3. What does this theory view as the The Good Life? (meaning what is the life they should look after or seek)

4. What does this theory believe about how people change?

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Short answers to the 4 questions on behaviorism with a reference.

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1. What is the implicit epistemology of behaviorism?

Behaviorism is defined by a set of rules for exploring and explaining complex behavior; based from the Learning Theory (Strand, 2008). The epistemology of behavior is said to be biological based with an environmental influence. That is that some personality traits are inherited; and some are picked up through development.

2. What are the core values of this theory?

Those rules require that explorations target organism-environment interactions and that explanations be made in terms of experimentally defined, observable ...

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