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What is the early school of thought promoted by Wundt and Titchener; used introspection to reveal the structure of the human mind.
Structuralism
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What is an observation technique in which one person is studied in depth in the hope of revealing universal principles
A case study
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What is someone who studies influences on teaching and learning
Educational psychologists
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What is someone who is involved in the assessment of and intervention for children in educational settings
School psychologists
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What is the study of behavior and thinking using the experimental method.
Experimental psychology
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What is the tendency to believe, after learning an outcome, that one would have foreseen it
Hindsight bias
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What is a branch of psychology that studies, assesses, and treats people with psychological disorders
Clinical psychologists
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What is a researcher and practitioner who work with people who have lost optimal functioning after an accident, illness, or other event
Rehabilitation psychologist
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What is a historically significant perspective that emphasized the growth potential of healthy people
Humanistic psychology
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What is the principle that, among the range of inherited trait variations, those contributing to reproduction and survival will most likely be passed on to succeeding generations
Natural selection
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What is someone helps people adjust to life transitions or make lifestyle changes
Counseling psychologists
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What is a researchers and practitioners concerned with psychology’s contribution to promoting health and preventing disease
Health psychologist
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What is the interdisciplinary study of the brain activity linked with cognition (including perception, thinking, memory, and language
Cognitive psychology
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What is psychology’s levels of analysis and related perspectives
levels of analysis
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What is someone who promotes psychological health in individuals, groups, and organizations
Clinical psychologists
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What is something that applies psychological principles to legal issues
Forensic psychologist
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What is the science of behavior and mental processes
Psychology
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What is psychology's main subfields
Cognitive psychology, evolutionary psychology, psychodynamic psychology, social-cultural psychology, and psychometrics
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What is studies the psychological factors that influence, and are influenced by, participation in sports and other physical activities
Sport psychologists
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What is a professional who practices psychology and studies normal and abnormal mental states, perceptual, cognitive, emotional, and social processes and behavior by experimenting with, and observing, interpreting, and recording how individuals relate to one another and to their environments
psychologist
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