Exam 1: Evolution of Psychological Science-Part E

_____ makes up over half of the doctorates awarded in psychology.

_____ assist people in dealing with work or career issues and changes or help people deal with common crises such as divorce,the loss of a job,or the death of a loved one.

Social psychology examines issues such as conformity,racism,and stereotyping by:

Psychology is defined as the scientific study of:

The work of _____ had the greatest influence on the early development of clinical psychology.

_____ holds that culture makes little or no difference for most psychological phenomena.

Fred and Yvonne notice that their 10-year-old daughter is beginning to use sexually explicit swearwords.They think that their daughter's friends might be encouraging her swearing with attention and laughter.Such a reinforcement of behavior was a concept formulated by:

Why was the advent of the computer so important for the development of cognitive psychology?

_____ believed that the child's mind was a tabula rasa,or a blank slate,on which experiences were written.

Although the overall theory was later discredited,_____ was one of the first theories to propose that some human traits and abilities are localized in specific regions of the brain.

William James was influenced by the work of:

_____ believed that private experience was too vague to be an object of scientific inquiry.

Scientists such as Max Wertheimer,Sir Frederic Bartlett,Jean Piaget,and Kurt Lewin paved the way for _____ by researching processes such as perception,memory,and subjective experiences.

Edward Titchener used _____ as a technique to determine the _____ of consciousness.

In the 19th century,the physician _____ observed a patient who,after damage to a localized area in the _____ brain hemisphere,could not produce words,even though he could comprehend them.