The Phrase, "Psychology Has a Long Past, but a Short

question 171

Multiple Choice

The phrase, "Psychology has a long past, but a short history" clearly depicts the statement that

• A) although many negative events have characterized psychology's past, many positive events have occurred in recent years.
• B) people have always been interested in explaining behavior, but psychology did not become a science until relatively recently.
• C) psychology has been a science for hundreds of years, but only recently has the general public become interested in it.
• D) although psychology has existed as a science for a very long time, it is being overshadowed by more exact sciences and will not likely survive beyond the current century.

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