Tomeka is a clinical psychologist who specializes in working with clients who have phobias. One of the basic assumptions she makes about people's fears of spiders and snakes is that such fears can be adaptive, since spiders and snakes are sometimes dangerous. Tomeka's assumption best fits the __________ approach to psychology.
A. humanistic
B. evolutionary
C. psychodynamic
D. cognitive
Answer: B
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a. habituation. b. sensory memory. c. visual recognition memory. d. classical conditioning.
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A) behaviourism B) philosophical empiricism C) phrenology D) dualism
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A. schema B. script C. mental model D. proposition
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