Since the Late 1970s, the Proportion of Psychologists Who Are

question 354

Multiple Choice

Since the late 1970s, the proportion of psychologists who are ________ has steadily increased; today, ________ account for more than half of all psychologists in Canada.

• A) practitioners; psychoanalysts
• B) researchers; school psychologists
• C) practitioners; practitioners
• D) researchers; researchers

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Definitions:

Wilhelm Wundt

Regarded as the father of experimental psychology, he established the first psychology laboratory at the University of Leipzig in 1879.

Ivan Pavlov

A Russian physiologist known for his work in classical conditioning, demonstrating how stimuli can trigger an association to responses, famously illustrated by his experiments with dogs.

Conditioning

A process of behavior modification in which an individual's response to a stimulus becomes modified, or conditioned, through reinforcement or punishment.

Psychiatric Social Worker

A mental health professional who combines social work and psychiatric treatment to help patients cope with mental illness.