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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 clinical | Works to help people with serious psychological disorders |
| counseling | A psychologist who works with clients who have adjustment problems |
| school | Works on researching processes involved in learning and designing new teaching methods |
| educational | Works in an elementary school, developing programs for children with special needs, and administering assessment tests |
| developmental | Researches changes that occur over the lifespan |
| personality | This sub-specialist might work to define the characteristics or traits that define an individual's unique personality |
| social | Studies social pressures or influences that might change an individual's behavior |
| environmental | Investigates how people and the environment influence one another |
| experimental | Studies basic processes, such as motivation and emotion. |
| industrial | Works with companies to improve employee relations. |
| health | Studies topics such as the effects of stress on headaches or cardiovascular disease. |
| sport | Works with a young gymnast player to help her use visualization to complete a flip on the balance beam |
| forensic | Applies principles of psychology to the criminal justice system |
| Wilhelm Wundt | Founder of the structuralism school of thought |
| Gustav Fechner | elements of psychophysics sensations and perceptions( see, feel, ect) |
| Charles Darwin | a founder of functionalism |
| William James | The founder of American behaviorism |
| B. F. Skinner | One of the major contributors to behaviorism; believed that organisms learn to do things because they are reinforced |
| John Watson | Originator of the idea of evolution; argued the principle of "survival of the fittest." |
| Sigmund Freud | founder of the Psychodynamic school of psychology; believed in the importance of the unconscious |
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