Chapter 1

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Counseling psychologists

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Help people adapt to change or make changes in their lifestyle

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Clinical psychologists

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Evaluate and treat mental, emotional, and behavioral disorders

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Developmental psychologists

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Study psychological development throughout the lifespan

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Educational psychologist

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Focus on how effective teaching and learning take place

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Engineering psychologist

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Promote the development and application of psychology to improve technology, consumer products, energy systems, communication and transportation decision making, work settings, and living environments

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Forensic psychologist

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Apply psychological principles to legal issues

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Health psychologist

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Concentrate on biological, psychological, and social factors involved in health and illness

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Industrial/ organizational psychologists

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Aim to improve productivity and the quality of work life. By Applying psychological principles and methods to the workplace

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Neuropsychologists

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Relationship between brain/nervous systems and behavior

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Personality psychologists

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Focus on apsects of the individual such as traits, attitudes, and goals

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Psychometricians or psychometric psychologists or measurement psychologists

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Focus on methods for acquiring and analyzing psychological data 3 possible answers

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Rehabilitation psychologist

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Help clients with mental retardation, developmental disabilities, and disabilities resulting in striker accidents adapt to their situations

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School psychologist

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Asses and counsel students, consult with educators and parents, and perform behavioral intervention when necessary

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Social psychologists

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Focus on how a person”s life and heavier are shaped by interactions with others

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Sports psychologists

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Help athletes refine their focus on competition goals, increase motivation, and deal with anxiety and fear of failure

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Psychology

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The science of behavior and mental process

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Monism

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Seeing mind and body as different aspects of the same thing

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Dualism

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Seeing mind and body as two different aspects of the same thing

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Nature-Nurture controversy

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The extent to which behavior results from heredity or experience

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Plato and Descartes (nature)

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2 people believed behavior is inborn and this is

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Aristotle, Locke, Watson, and Skinner (Nurtue)

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Believed behavior results from experience 4 people

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School of structuralism

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Early psychological perspective that emphasized units of consciousness and identification of elements using introspection

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Wilhelmina Wundt

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Founder of science psychology in Leipzig, Germany. Studied consciousness using introspection

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G. Stanley Hall Linked to school of structuralism

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Brought introspection to his lab at Johns Hopkins university in the U.S.;

First president of American Psychological Association

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Edward Titchener School of structuralism

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Studied elements of consciousness at his cornel lab What school?

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Margaret Floy Washburn School of structuralism

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First woman to complete her Pd.D in psychology What school is she in?

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School of Functionalism

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Early psychological perspective concerned with how an organism uses perceptual abilities to adapt to is environment

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William James School of functionalism

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Wrote principles of psychology What school?

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Mary Whiton Calkins School of functionalism

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First woman president of American Psychological Association School of ?

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Behavioral approach

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Psychological perspective concerned with behavioral reactions to stimuli; learning is the result

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Ivan Pravlov Behavioral approach

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Known for classical conditioning of dogs What approach did he believe in?

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John Watson Behavioral approach

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Known for experiments in classical aversive conditioning What approach?

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B.F. Skinner Behavioral approach

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Known for experiments on operant conditioning What approach?

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Psychoanalytic/Psychodynamic approach

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Psychological perspective concerned with how unconsciousness instincts, conflicts, motives, and defenses influence behavior

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Sigmund Freud Psychoanalytical/Psychodynamic approach

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"Father of Psychonalytics" Spoke to patients over long periods of time Early life experiences are important to personality development

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Jung , Alder, Horney, Kohut Psychoanalytical/Psychodynamic approach

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Psychodynamic psychologists 3 of them

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Humanistic approach

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Psychological perspective concerned with individual potential for growth and the role of unique perceptions in growth towards ones potential

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Carl Rogers, Abraham Maslow

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2 humanistic psychologists

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Biological approach

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Psychological perspective concerned with physiological and biochemical factors that determine behavior and mental psychologists

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Cognitive approach

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Psychological perspective concerned with how we store , receive, and process information; think/reason ; and use language

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Jean Piaget

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Studied cognitive development in children

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Evolutionary approach Darwin approach

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Psychological perspective concerned with how aural selection favored behaviors that contributed to survival and spread of our ancestors genes What mans theory did they take

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Sociocultural approach

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Psychological perspective concerned with how cultural difference affect behavior

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Eclectic

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Uses techniques and ideas from a variety of approaches