GRE General Test Practice Questions - Graduate Record Examinations General Test Exam

Read the passage and answer the question. "For much of the twentieth century, behaviorism dominated academic psychology, reducing mental life to observable stimulus-response relationships and dismissing introspective accounts of consciousness as scientifically inadmissible. The cognitive revolution of the 1950s and 1960s rehabilitated internal mental states by treating the mind as an information-processing system—one that could be studied rigorously through reaction times, memory experiments, and computational models. Yet critics note that even cognitive science, in its classical form, risks reducing the richness of human experience to the manipulation of abstract symbols, leaving aside questions of emotion, embodiment, and social context that philosophers and phenomenologists had long considered central." The passage implies that cognitive science, in its classical form, is similar to behaviorism in that both: