_______________ Wanted to Know How Specific Behaviors and Mental Processes

question 210

Multiple Choice

_______________ wanted to know how specific behaviors and mental processes help a person or animal adapt to the environment, so they looked for the underlying causes and practical consequences of these behaviors and processes.

• A) Rationalists
• B) Structuralists
• C) Fundamentalists
• D) Functionalists

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Definitions:

Instrumental Functions

The practical and task-oriented activities or roles performed by an individual or within an entity, aimed at achieving specific objectives.

Conflict Perspective

A sociological approach that views social and economic institutions as tools of the struggle between groups or classes, used to maintain inequality and the dominance of the ruling class.

Structural-functionalism

An approach within sociology that considers society to be a complicated system with various parts working in harmony to ensure stability and cohesion.

African Americans

Individuals in the United States with ancestry from the black racial groups of Africa.