Investigating whether a dog could be conditioned to bark when it detected the odor of a specific narcotic drug would have been of most direct interest to the school of thought known as
A) functionalism.
B) structuralism.
C) behaviorism.
D) Freudian psychology.

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The school of thought known as behaviorism focuses on observable and measurable behaviors and suggests that learning and conditioning are the primary factors that shape behavior. The investigation of conditioning a dog to bark upon detecting a specific odor of a narcotic drug would be of most direct interest to the behaviorist perspective.

Investigating Whether a Dog Could Be Conditioned to Bark When