Skinner believed that behavior can be controlled by:

(Answer to Q. 1)  ANS: A
FEEDBACK: Skinner's fundamental idea is that behavior can be controlled by its consequences, that is, by what follows the behavior. He believed that an animal or a human could be trained to perform virtually any act and that the type of reinforcement that followed the behavior would be responsible for determining it.

(Answer to Q. 2)  ANS: D
FEEDBACK: Skinner projected all of his emotional and intellectual discontent onto the protagonist of a novel, Walden Two, letting the character vent his personal and professional frustrations. It describes a society in which all aspects of life are controlled by positive reinforcement, which is the basic principle of Skinner's system of psychology.

(Answer to Q. 3)  ANS: C
FEEDBACK: Just when Skinner thought he had lost all hope, he discovered a new identity that suited him, to which he would cling for the rest of his life. He decided that since writing had failed him, he would study human behavior by the methods of science rather than the methods of fiction.

(Answer to Q. 4)  ANS: B
FEEDBACK: Skinner built a study in the attic of his parents' home in Scranton, Pennsylvania, and sat down to write. The results were disastrous. Skinner was 22 years old and a failure at the only thing he wanted to do. He later referred to that time as his dark year, what Erikson would call an identity crisis. Skinner's occupational identity as a writer, which he had so carefully constructed during his college years, had collapsed and took with it his sense of self-worth.

(Answer to Q. 5)  ANS: B
FEEDBACK: The many hours he spent as a child constructing mechanical devices such as wagons and seesaws were prophetic of Skinner's view of people as machines that operate predictably. Skinner also worked on a perpetual-motion machine, which perpetually failed.

(Answer to Q. 6)  ANS: D
FEEDBACK: Skinner's experiences as an adult such as visiting a cathedral and taking care to avoid stepping on the gravestones set in the floor made it clear to him that his adult behaviors had been determined by the rewards and punishmentsthe reinforcementshe had received as a child. Thus, his system of psychology and his view of people as complex systems behaving in lawful ways clearly reflected his own early life experiences.

I know you spent a lot of time finding this because I swear it wasn't in my textbook

You're partially right, it's found midway in the chapter, but not at all easy to find. Good luck with the rest