Okay. So this one asks us, which of the following research questions would a functionalist ask? So let's run through them and see what we're thinking. So A reads, "What happens in the mind when a human feels velvet?" And that's feeling very, like, structuralist to me.
Right? It's kind of like, what is the conscious experience during this event? Very structuralism, so we're going to cross that out. B reads, "What part of the brain is used for vision?" And that was just really not a main focus of the functionalists.
To be fair, it was the early 1900s, and they weren't exactly doing cutting-edge neuroscience. They had no neuroimaging techniques. So that was just not a main goal of functionalism at the time. So B is out. C reads, "How does the social environment, including culture, impact morality?"
That one's kind of tricky. So, you know, morality is something that a functionalist might be interested in. That's something that did have to evolve over time. But I'm also seeing a lot of emphasis on, like, social environment and culture, and that's not really something that functionalists were particularly known for. They weren't really taking into account, like, culture and things like that.
So we'll leave that blank and we'll see if D is fitting a little bit better. So D reads, "Why might it be evolutionarily advantageous for humans to feel emotions like guilt and shame?" And that is a beautiful functionalist question. So we are going to cross off C and we are going to circle D because it has that nice strong emphasis on the adaptive significance. You know, why was it evolutionarily advantageous for humans to have this thing or feel these emotions?
That is very classic functionalism there. So our answer is going to be D. And there you go.