Dr. Smythe believes that in order to fully understand complex processes, such as taste, it is necessary to understand the purpose that taste plays in human adaptation, not the elementary components that combine to produce taste sensations. Dr. Smythe's views are MOST consistent with

a. the behaviorist approach to psychology.
b. the functionalist approach to psychology.
c. the structuralist approach to psychology.
d. the psychoanalytic approach to psychology.


B

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