_______________ wanted to know how specific behaviors and mental processes help a person or animal adapt to the environment, so they looked for the underlying causes and practical consequences of these behaviors and processes.
A) Rationalists
B) Structuralists
C) Fundamentalists
D) Functionalists

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The description matches the perspective of functionalists who focused on understanding the adaptive functions of behavior and mental processes in facilitating survival and reproduction. Rationalists were more concerned with the role of reason and innate knowledge while structuralists focused on analyzing conscious experience. Fundamentalists is not a term commonly used in psychology.

_______________ Wanted to Know How Specific Behaviors and Mental Processes