Professor Wenches Approaches Questions About Human Behavior from a Perspective

question 17

Multiple Choice

Professor Wenches approaches questions about human behavior from a perspective that emphasizes unconscious processes within the individual, such as inner forces or conflicts. It is most likely that she accepts which of the following psychological approaches?

• A) social-cognitive learning
• B) behaviorism
• C) the cognitive approach
• D) the psychodynamic approach

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Definitions:

Empirical Rules

A set of guidelines that indicate how the data are spread in a normal distribution, specifically stating that approximately 68%, 95%, and 99.7% of the data fall within one, two, and three standard deviations from the mean, respectively.

Standard Deviations

A measure of the amount of variation or dispersion of a set of values, indicating how much the values differ from the mean.

Observations

Data collected or noticed during an experiment or study, often referring to the individual data points or recorded occurrences.

Empirical Rules

Generalizations based on observations and experience rather than theory, often used in statistical analysis.