How Our Minds Help Us Adapt to the World Around

question 7

Multiple Choice

How our minds help us adapt to the world around us was a primary question addressed by which early movement of psychology?

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

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Definitions:

Audit Committees

A subgroup of a company's board of directors responsible for overseeing financial reporting and disclosure.

Profit Maximization

The process by which a firm determines the price and output level that returns the greatest profit.

Deontological Theory

A moral philosophy that emphasizes the importance of duty and the inherent morality of actions, rather than outcomes or consequences.

Utilitarian Ethical Theory

An ethical theory suggesting that the best action is the one that maximizes utility, usually defined as that which produces the greatest well-being of the greatest number of people.