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What is Psychology
The science of behavior and mental processes.
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What is Sigmund Freud
This psychologist developed the psychoanalytic theory of personality.
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What is Behavioral Psychology
The approach that focuses on how we learn observable responses.
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What is Counseling Psychology
A branch of psychology that assists people with problems in living and in achieving greater well-being.
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What is American Psychological Association
APA stands for this.
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What is Nature-Nurture Issue
The longstanding controversy over the relative contributions that genes and experience make to the development of psychological traits and behaviors.
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What is William James
This psychologist taught the first psychology course and wrote the first psychology textbook.
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What is Cognitive Psychology
The approach that focuses on how we encode, process, store, and retrieve information.
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What is Clinical Psychology
A branch of psychology that studies, assesses, and treats people with psychological disorders.
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What is Ivan Pavlov
This psychologist pioneered the study of learning.
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What is Structuralism
An early school of psychology that used introspection to explore the structural elements of the human mind.
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What is Wilhelm Wundt
This psychologist founded the first psychology laboratory and is known as the father of psychological science.
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What is Humanistic Psychology
The approach that focuses on how we meet our needs for love and acceptance and achieve self-fulfillment.
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What is Psychiatry
A branch of medicine dealing with psychological disorders and treatment.
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What is Survey, Question, Read, Rehearse, Review
The five steps of SQ3R.
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What is Functionalism
A school of psychology that focused on how our mental and behavioral processes enable us to adapt and flourish.
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What is John B. Watson or B.F. Skinner
One of the pioneering psychologists of behaviorism.
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What is Evolutionary Psychology
The approach that focuses on how the natural selection of traits promoted the survival of genes.
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What is Industrial-Organizational (I/O) Psychology
The application of psychological concepts and methods to optimizing human behavior in workplaces.
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What is University of Leipzig, 1879
The first psychology laboratory was established at this university and in this year.
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What is Empiricism
The view that knowledge originates in experience and that science should, therefore, rely on observation and experimentation.
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What is Carl Rogers or Abraham Maslow
One of the pioneering psychologists of humanistic psychology.
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What is Psychodynamic Psychology
The approach that focuses on how behavior springs from unconscious drives and conflicts.
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What is Developmental Psychology
The scientific study of physical, cognitive, and social change throughout the lifespan.
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What is Eclectic Psychology
The use of a variety of approaches within the field of psychology.
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