According to B. F. Skinner:
A)every person is responsible for his or her own behavior.
B)the ideas of free will and self-determination are the guiding forces behind human behavior.
C)environmental factors determine a person's behavior.
D)mental processes are important in understanding human behavior but not animal behavior.

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According to B.F. Skinner, environmental factors determine a person's behavior. He believed that behavior is shaped and controlled by the external environment, and not by free will or internal mental processes. Skinner's theory of operant conditioning suggests that behavior is a result of the consequences that follow it, such as rewards or punishments, and that these consequences can modify and shape behavior.