If You Wonder About the Adaptive Purpose of a Common

question 72

Multiple Choice

If you wonder about the adaptive purpose of a common behaviour (such as toddlers following their mothers around or teenagers wanting more independence from their parents) your wondering would be MOST consistent with the principles of

• A) cultural psychology.
• B) humanism.
• C) biological psychology.
• D) evolutionary psychology.

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