mental illness: Moore reviewed how some of the very first human applicationsof operant conditioning actually derived from those diagnosed with a 2. mentalistic, unobservable: Tradition viewpoints to serving the mentally ill ofteninvolve explanations of causes(such as malfunctionsof the body) that are only inferred by observable behavior. In other words, mental illnesses are caused by something inside the person - an underlying pathology muchlike we consider with other medical conditions cau...