Anticipating future outcomes or behaviors is at the heart of psychology's goal of:

Psychology is a science that analyzes the thoughts, feelings, actions and goals of people.
Anticipating future outcomes or behaviors is at the heart of psychology's goal of: prediction. To explain, to control and to predict are the basic goals of psychology. A psychologist aims to predict how that behavior will appear again in the future and if other people will exhibit the same behavior.

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Ithink the answer you are looking for is (b).