According to the Authors of the Textbook,what Is a Key

question 6

Multiple Choice

According to the authors of the textbook,what is a key reason why psychology took almost 300 years longer than physics,biology,and chemistry to become scientific?

• A)Early scientific methodology was too primitive to use to study the mind.
• B)Laws were passed in the 1600s that made studying the mind illegal.
• C)Few people were interested in the mind and behaviour prior to the 20th century.
• D)The zeitgeist of the 1600s prevented people from believing that science could be applied to the study of the mind.

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