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100

This psychological approach would make the statement: Maybe Juan refuses to cry about his mother's death because crying is not acceptable in his culture.

What is the social-cultural approach?

100
A psychologist from this school of thought would say, "Perhaps you're addicted to smoking because cigarettes are very sexual-looking objects."
What is psychoanalysis?
100
This psychologist conducted the first psychological experiments in the first psychology laboratory?
Who is William Wundt?
100
This subfield involves working with patients in a medical setting, diagnosing and treating them.
What is clinical psychology?
200

A psychologist using this approach to psychology would look at Maria's anger and try to determine whether she had inherited a bad temper from one of her parents.

What is biological?

200
A psychologist from this school of thought might say, "Look into your own mind, and try to figure out why you are depressed."
What is structuralism?
200
This psychologist was the first American to work for Wundt, and started the first American psychology lab.
Who is G. Stanley Hall?
200
This subfield would involve working in an educational setting.
What is school psychology?
300
This psychological approach would make the statement, "Perhaps you are acting out at work because you have subconscious sexual desires."
What is the psychoanalytical approach?
300
A psychologist from this school of thought might say, "How do your brain's workings impact the fact that you can physically swing that baseball bat and hit the ball?"
What is functionalism?
300
This psychologist was the first female to be awarded a PhD in psychology.
Who is Margaret Floy Washburn?
300
This subfield would include examining how learning and behaviors develop as the patient ages.
What is developmental psychology?
400
This psychological approach would make the statement, "Let's investigate the way she processes that information and creates new memories with it."
What is the cognitive approach?
400
A psychologist from this school of thought might say, "How might you use your own powers and skills to come out of this depression?"
What is humanistic?
400
This psychologist created the functionalist school of thought.
Who is William James?
400
This subfield involves studying brain waves, genetics, and hormones.
What is neuropsychology?
500
This psychological perspective would make the statement, "Perhaps we only feel love so that we can have children, so that our genes can be passed along and survive!"
What is evolutionary?
500
A psychologist from this school of thought might say, "When we are happy about something, it comes from more than just neurons and electrical impulses... it comes from insightful thinking."
What is Gestalt?
500

This psychologist described the concept of cognitive dissonance.

Who is Leon Festinger?

500
This subfield would involve examining crimes that were committed, and why the perpetrator may have committed that crime.
What is forensic psychology?