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When and how did psychological science begin?
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Psychological science had its modern beginning with the first psychological laboratory, founded in 1879 by German philosopher and physiologist Wilhelm Wundt, and from the later works of other scholars from several disciplines and many countries.
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How did psychology continue to develop from the 1920s through today?
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Having begun as a "science of mental life" psychology evolved in the 1920s into the "scientific study of observable behavior." After rediscovering the mind, psychology since the 1960s has been widely defined as the science of behavior and mental processes.
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What is psychology's historic big issue?
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Psychology's biggest and most enduring issue concerns the relative contributions and interplay between the influences of nature (genes) and nurture ( all other influences, from conception to death). Today's science emphasizes the interaction of genes and experiences in specific environments.
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What are psychology's levels of analysis and related perspectives?
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The biopsychosocial approach integrates information from the biological, psychological, and social-cultural levels of analysis. Psychologist study human behaviors and mental processes from many different perspectives (including the neuroscientific, evolutionary, behavior genetics, psychodynamic, behavioral, cognitive, and social-cultural perspectives).
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What are psychology's main subfields?
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Psychology's subfields encompass basic research (often done by biological, developmental, cognitive, personality, and social psychologists), applied research (sometimes conducted by industrial/organizational psychologists), and clinical science and applications (the work of counseling psychologists and clinical psychologists). Clinical psychologists study, assess, and treat (with psychotherapy) people with psychological disorders. Psychiatrists also study, assess, and treat people with disorders, but as medical doctors, they may prescribe drugs in addition to psychotherapy.
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