Dr Yang Is Studying Pain Perception

question 31

Multiple Choice

Dr. Yang is studying pain perception. She argues that we can only understand the conscious experience of pain if we first understand the role of pain in human survival and adaptation. Which early school of psychology is Dr. Yang's views MOST like?

• A) structuralism
• B) behaviorism
• C) functionalism
• D) humanism

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