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The behavioristic view includes the concepts of shaping, unconscious processes, and successive approximations.

a) True
b) False

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Final answer:

The behavioristic view involves shaping and successive approximations, aligned with operant conditioning, and not unconscious processes, making the assertion false. The correct term for the process represented by the diagram is operant conditioning.

Step-by-step explanation:

The behavioristic view indeed incorporates concepts such as shaping and successive approximations, but it does not typically include unconscious processes as a central tenet. Shaping is a method used in operant conditioning where reinforcements are provided for behaviors that increasingly resemble the target behavior. Successive approximations are the steps taken towards the desired behavior in shaping. Unconscious processes are more aligned with psychoanalytic theory, rather than behaviorism, which often considers explicit, observable behaviors and responses to environmental stimuli. B.F. Skinner, a famous behaviorist, emphasized the role of the environment in shaping behavior and did not focus on unconscious processes. Therefore, the assertion that behaviorism includes unconscious processes is False. The diagram described in the question likely references the shaping of behavior through successive approximations as modeled in operant conditioning. The correct term for the process represented by the diagram is operant conditioning, which relies on reinforcements or punishments after behaviors, rather than innate responses or more passive forms of learning like classical conditioning.

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