Question

The idea that behavior is entirely determined by the external environment is called __________.

a. determinism
b. reciprocity
c. conditioning
d. self-efficacy

Answer 1

This philosophy is called determinism. The idea is that every action or behavior at present is an effect of previous action or behavior.  It may be compared to cause and effect theorem. There is a variety of determinism philosophy: Causal, Predeterminism, Nominative, Fatalism, nd many others.