It Took More Than Ten Years to Write and Was

question 91

Multiple Choice

It took more than ten years to write and was 1,400 pages long when it was published. Who wrote the landmark textbook Principles of Psychology?

• A) John B. Watson
• B) Margaret Floy Washburn
• C) B. F. Skinner
• D) William James

---

Definitions:

Objective Function

A mathematical expression that defines the goal of an optimization problem, e.g., to maximize profits or minimize costs.

Solved

A situation or problem that has been resolved, answered, or dealt with successfully.

Shadow Price

An estimated price for something that is not normally bought or sold in the market, often used in constrained optimization to value the cost of using an additional unit of a scarce resource.

Maximization Problem

A type of optimization that involves finding the maximum value of a function within a given domain, often subject to constraints.