Who is the American psychologist who proposed the functionalist approach and whose textbook, Principles of Psychology, dominated the field of psychology for 50 years after its publication?

a. Sigmund Freud
b. B. F. Skinner
c. Abraham Maslow
d. William James


ANSWER: d

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