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Psychology
Semester: 5th

Lecture: 3

Prepare by: Curriculum Committee

year: 1402

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 Chapter Two
Kinds of psychology
• The method of classical psychology as practiced by Wilhem Wundt at his Leipzig
laboratory and taught by Edward Titchener at Cornell was introspection.
• Introspection is the consideration of one's own inner events. Systematic
introspection, an orderly method of recording one's insights, was the research
method used from approximately 1880 to 1920.
• The use of introspection was backed by the philosophical doctrines of Locke and
Descartes: they maintained that the person was able to observe each and every of
his mental states.
• This concept was known as the transparency of the mind, and reached its highest
point with the theories of Wundt and Titchener, who insisted that the examination
of the stream of consciousness allowed psychologists to completely analyze
mental processes.
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Specialization in field of Psychology
• Clinical psychologists
• Community psychologists:
• Counseling psychologists:
• Developmental psychologists:
• Educational psychologists:
• Engineering psychologists:
• Environmental psychologists:
• Evolutionary psychologists:
• Experimental psychologists:
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• Health psychologists:
• Industrial/organizational psychologists:
• Neuropsychologists (and behavioral
neuropsychologists):
• Quantitative and measurement
psychologists:
• Rehabilitation psychologists:
• School psychologists:
• Social psychologists:
• Sport psychologists:
• Personality psychology:
• Exceptional Psychology:
• Abnormal psychology: