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functionalism {Ans: an early school of thought promoted by James and influenced by Darwin; explored how mental and behavioral processes function—how they enable the organism to adapt, survive, and flourish.}histogram {Ans: a bar graph depicting a frequency distribution.}developmental psychology {Ans: a branch of psychology that studies physical, cognitive, and social change throughout the life span.}psychometrics {Ans: the scientific study of the measurement of human abilities, attitudes, and traits.}sampling bias {Ans: a flawed sampling process that produces an unrepresentative sample.}social-cultural psychology {Ans: the study of how situations and cultures affect our behavior and thinking.}