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What is functional analysis? Provide one brief example of a functional analysis performed by cognitive psychologists?

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1. What is functional analysis? Provide one brief example of a functional analysis performed by cognitive psychologists?

Functional analysis is a methodology used by cognitive psychologists to determine the algorithms used by the information possessor to solve some problem of interest. In general it works as follows: First, you identify a phenomenon. Second, you ...

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