Practice question · Select all that apply
Select every statement that is TRUE about the founding schools.
Hints
- Two options misattribute a goal - one to Wundt, one to functionalism.
- The unconscious is Freud's territory, and decomposition is structuralism's, not functionalism's.
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- B. Functionalism's question opened the way to applied psychology.
- C. Introspection was structuralism's central method.
- D. Functionalism was influenced by Darwinian evolution.
Why
Introspection, Darwinian influence, and the opening to applied psychology are all true. Wundt studied conscious experience (not the unconscious - that is Freud), and decomposing consciousness was structuralism's aim, not functionalism's - so those two are false.
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