Activity 2.2
One of the major tenets of behavior is the accepted rule that a person's innermost mental state can be determined by their outward behavior. Another tenet is based on the principle that a person's behavior (response) can be explained in respects to the environment (stimulus). Lastly, due to the differing patterns of reinforcement, the strength of the response may be dictated by the type of conditioning.
I don't know that a behaviorist would ever be interested in inferring (or acknowledging) an internal mental state. Perhaps the behaviorist would simply define such things as emotions in terms of the behaviors that characterize them. Remember that behavior is explained both in terms of stimulus and reinforcer.
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