While browsing through a book on the history of psychology, you come across a letter from a psychologist to a friend. The psychologist wrote, "If asked, I would describe myself as a functionalist."
If that psychologist were alive today, where would we most likely find him?
a) in a laboratory, studying principles of perception
b) in a school, working to improve teaching methods
c) in a mountain retreat, contemplating the meaning of life
d) in a sleep laboratory, trying to determine if our need for sleep is biologically based
ANS: b
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