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  2. Humanistic psychology - Wikipedia

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    Humanistic psychology is a psychological perspective that arose in the mid-20th century in answer to two theories: Sigmund Freud's psychoanalytic theory and B. F. Skinner's behaviorism. [1] Thus, Abraham Maslow established the need for a "third force" in psychology. [ 2 ]

  3. Psychological behaviorism - Wikipedia

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    Psychological behaviorism is a form of behaviorism—a major theory within psychology which holds that generally human behaviors are learned—proposed by Arthur W. Staats. The theory is constructed to advance from basic animal learning principles to deal with all types of human behavior, including personality, culture, and human evolution.

  4. Experimental psychology - Wikipedia

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    Experimental psychology refers to work done by those who apply experimental methods to psychological study and the underlying processes. Experimental psychologists employ human participants and animal subjects to study a great many topics, including (among others) sensation, perception, memory, cognition, learning, motivation, emotion; developmental processes, social psychology, and the neural ...

  5. Category:Psychological theories - Wikipedia

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    Cannon–Bard theory; Causes of gender incongruence; Cognitive clarity theory of learning to read; Cognitive miser; Cognitive resource theory; Cognitive tradeoff hypothesis; Cognitive-experiential self-theory; Cognitivism (psychology) Conservation of resources theory; Convergence-divergence zone; Core relational theme; Correspondent inference ...

  6. Environmental psychology - Wikipedia

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    Environmental psychology also interacts with the other interdisciplinary specialization field of psychology, which include: developmental psychology, cognitive science, industrial and organizational psychology, psychobiology, psychoanalysis, [14] and social neuroscience. This multidisciplinary approach allows for a more comprehensive ...

  7. Six degrees of separation - Wikipedia

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    Since the Psychology Today article gave the experiments wide publicity, Milgram, Kochen, and Karinthy all had been incorrectly credited as the origin of the notion of six degrees; the most likely popularizer of the term "six degrees of separation" was John Guare, who attributed the concept of six degrees to Marconi.

  8. Ecological systems theory - Wikipedia

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    Ecological systems theory is a broad term used to capture the theoretical contributions of developmental psychologist Urie Bronfenbrenner. [1] Bronfenbrenner developed the foundations of the theory throughout his career, [2] published a major statement of the theory in American Psychologist, [3] articulated it in a series of propositions and hypotheses in his most cited book, The Ecology of ...

  9. Clinical psychology - Wikipedia

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    Clinical psychology is an integration of human science, behavioral science, theory, and clinical knowledge for the purpose of understanding, preventing, and relieving psychologically-based distress or dysfunction and to promote subjective well-being and personal development.