Professor Carpentier Tends to Take a Functionalist Approach to Understanding

question 74

Multiple Choice

Professor Carpentier tends to take a functionalist approach to understanding emotional development in children. He has proposed that emotions

• A) have little impact on cognition.
• B) are innate and thus are unaffected by socialization.
• C) promote action toward a goal.
• D) do not emerge until a child has a sense of self.

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Definitions:

Optic Nerve

A crucial nerve in the eye that transmits visual information from the retina to the brain.

Axon Fibers

Long, slender projections of nerve cells (neurons) that conduct electrical impulses away from the neuron's cell body.

Ganglion Cells

Neurons located in the retina that receive visual information from photoreceptors and transmit it to the brain.

Opponent-process Theory

A psychological and neurological model that explains how humans perceive colors as the brain processes signals from the eyes in an antagonistic manner.