With its emphasis on stimuli and responses, which school of thought helped make psychology a natural science, rather than a branch of philosophy?
a. behaviorism
b. Gestalt psychology
c. humanistic psychology
d. psychoanalysis
ANSWER: a
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Fill in the blank(s) with correct word