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 behavior 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.
Answer: D
Rationale: The power of the Zeitgeist can be very strong and there are several ways it prevented psychological science from emerging in the 1600s. Perhaps most important is that people were not ready to accept a science that could be applied to minds. To the average person of the 1600s, viewing human behavior as the result of predictable physical laws was troubling.
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