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Gordon W. Allport
Gordon W. Allport , 1897-1967, American psychologist, b. Montezuma, Ind. One of the first psychologists to study personality , Allport researched human attitudes, prejudices, and religious beliefs. His theory of personality, which rejected both Freudian psychology and behaviorism, emphasized the un... Read more
Gustave Le Bon
Gustave Le Bon , 1841-1931, French psychologist and sociologist. He was the author of a number of works on social psychology, in which he expounded theories of national traits and racial superiority. His works include Psychologie des foules (1895; tr. The Crowd: A Study of the Popular Mind, 1897... Read more
Conwy Lloyd Morgan
Conwy Lloyd Morgan 1852-1936, English psychologist. Professor of zoology at University College, Bristol (1887-1909), he served as first vice chancellor of the Univ. of Bristol (1909-10) and was professor of psychology and ethics until his retirement in 1919. He was one of the founders of animal psy... Read more
Franz Brentano
Franz Brentano , 1838-1917, German philosopher and psychologist. He was a teacher (1866-73) at Würzburg, and in 1874 he became professor of philosophy at Vienna. In 1880 he retired to write and study. His best-known book, Psychologie vom empirischen Standpunkte (1874), attempts to establish p... Read more
Hans Jurgen Eysenck
Hans Jurgen Eysenck , 1916-97, British psychologist. Best known for his theory of human personality, Eysenck suggested that personality is biologically determined and is arranged in a hierarchy consisting of types, traits, habitual responses, and specific responses. A staunch critic of psychoanalysi... Read more
Kurt Koffka
Kurt Koffka , 1886-1941, American psychologist, b. Germany, Ph.D. Univ. of Berlin, 1908. Before settling permanently in the United States in 1928 as a professor at Smith, he taught at Cornell and at the Univ. of Wisconsin. With Max Wertheimer and Wolfgang Köhler he is credited with developing t... Read more
Lucien Lévy-Bruhl
Lucien Lévy-Bruhl , 1857-1939, French philosopher, psychologist, and ethnologist. He was professor at the Sorbonne from 1899 and editor of the Revue philosophique de la France et de l'étranger. Particularly known for his research on the mentality of preliterate peoples, he wrote nume... Read more
William James McGill
William James McGill 1922-97, American educator and psychologist, b. New York City, grad. Fordham (A.B., 1943) and Harvard (Ph.D., 1953). A specialist in psychophysics and mathematical psychology, he was professor of psychology at Columbia (1956-65) and at the Univ. of California at San Diego (1965... Read more
Edward Bradford Titchener
Edward Bradford Titchener , 1867-1927, American psychologist, b. Chichester, England, grad. Oxford, 1890. He studied in Leipzig (Ph.D. 1892) under Wundt (whose Principles of Physiological Psychology he translated), and in 1892 he became head of the new psychological laboratory at Cornell, where he... Read more
Graham Wallas
Graham Wallas , 1858-1932, English political scientist and psychologist. He joined (1886) the Fabian Society and was the author of one of the Fabian Essays. In 1914, Wallas became professor of political science at the Univ. of London. In his lectures and writings he studied the psychological fac... Read more

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Psychologist, School
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of Education ...Consultation. School psychologists spend about 20 percent...services in which the psychologist works to alter the...important role for school psychologists, other priorities...programs. The need for psychologists to help determine...districts, the school psychologist works with a pupil...
Psychology/Psychologist
Encyclopedia entry from: Gale Encyclopedia of Psychology Psychology/Psychologist The science which studies...ascendance of the Viennese psychologist Sigmund Freud and his...Since the 1970s, many psychologists have been influenced...human being. Most psychologists apply the principles...
Psychologist
Encyclopedia entry from: Gale Encyclopedia of Mental Disorders Psychologist Definition A psychologist is a social scientist who studies...1960s. Since the 1970s, many psychologists have been influenced by the...the total human being. Most psychologists apply the principles of various...
National Association of School Psychologists
Encyclopedia entry from: Gale Encyclopedia of Psychology National Association of School Psychologists Organization of school psychologists and related professionals, with members in...countries. The National Association of School Psychologists (NASP) has over 21,000 members from the...
Forensic Psychology
Encyclopedia entry from: Gale Encyclopedia of Psychology ...Finally, forensic psychologists advise on the prognosis...case, the forensic psychologist may be hired by a...the accident. The psychologist must then evaluate...preexisting ones. Forensic psychologists are regularly consulted...itself that hires a psychologist to evaluate both parents...
Clinical Psychology
Encyclopedia entry from: Gale Encyclopedia of Psychology ...the counseling psychologist. Approximately one-third of the psychologists working in the...privileges for psychologists. The clinical psychologist has extensive training...disorders. Most psychologists earn a Ph.D...
Research Methodology
Encyclopedia entry from: Gale Encyclopedia of Psychology ...in. For example, psychologists have asked whether...experimentally, the psychologist would assign people...common when clinical psychologists work with a person...weakness is that the psychologist cannot generalize...person. Finally, psychologists can use archival information...
Applied Psychology
Encyclopedia entry from: Gale Encyclopedia of Psychology ...Approximately two-thirds of American psychologists work in applied fields. Many are...Approximately one-third of the psychologists in practice in the United States today are clinical psychologists, and most people are referred to...
Evolutionary Psychology
Encyclopedia entry from: International Encyclopedia of the Social Sciences ...x201D; Behavioral psychologists argue that humans have...perspective. Evolutionary psychologists ’ key contribution...weight to evolutionary psychologists ’ theoretical claims. Psychologist David Buss ’...
Conditioning
Encyclopedia entry from: Gale Encyclopedia of Psychology ...conditioning influenced psychologists greatly, even though...skeptical of the work psychologists performed. In the...from the ideas of the psychologist Edward Thorndike...popularized by the psychologist B.F. Skinner...influenced not only psychologists but also the general...

Dictionary entries related to "psychologist"

psychologist
Book article from: A Dictionary of Nursing psychologist (sy- kol -ŏ-jist) n...study of the mind. clinical p. a psychologist trained in aspects of the assessment...works in a hospital. educational p. a psychologist trained in aspects of the cognitive...
Behaviorism
Dictionary entry from: New Dictionary of the History of Ideas ...by the work of the comparative psychologist John B. Watson, and a later...x2013; 1955), defined by the psychologists Edward C. Tolman, Clark Hull...Watson was a comparative psychologist interested in making psychology...
Great Britain
Dictionary entry from: International Dictionary of Psychoanalysis ...important psychiatrists and psychologists who nevertheless maintained...psychoanalysis. The influential psychologist William McDougall, the research psychologist Sir Cyril Burt, the...psychiatrist, research psychologist, and anthropologist...
Racial Science
Dictionary entry from: Dictionary of American History ...arsenal, physical anthropologists, psychologists, and biologists sought to quantify...University of California educational psychologist Arthur Jensen claimed to have proven...scientist Charles Murray and Harvard psychologist Richard J. Herrnstein asserted the...
Disque Vert, Le
Dictionary entry from: International Dictionary of Psychoanalysis ...xE9; Allendy), psychiatrists and psychologists (E. Clapar è de, L. Lapicque...psychoanalysis was? It was J. Delboeuf, the psychologist from Liege." The partisans remained...psychoanalysts, wrote, "It is mostly psychologists and writers who have been discussing...
Psychology and Psychoanalysis
Dictionary entry from: International Dictionary of Psychoanalysis ...Freud to be ill informed about work by psychologists in his own time. This would probably...he was still at school it was from a psychologist, albeit an amateur, Herbart, that...informed about the current work of psychologists and neuropsychologists on these questions...
Sechehaye, Marguerite (1887-1964)
Dictionary entry from: International Dictionary of Psychoanalysis ...MARGUERITE (1887-1964) Swiss psychologist Marguerite Sechehaye was born on September...Jacques Rousseau, which was directed by psychologist É duard Clapar è de...and opened a private practice as a psychologist. Psychoanalyst Raymond de Saussure...
United States
Dictionary entry from: International Dictionary of Psychoanalysis ...order to cure these neuroses. So were psychologists, among them Stanley Hall (1844...repression. Consequently, philosophers, psychologists, and the educated public were as interested...University attracted diverse listeners: the psychologists William James and Edward Bradford Titchener...
Clark-Williams, Margaret (1910-1975)
Dictionary entry from: International Dictionary of Psychoanalysis ...WILLIAMS, MARGARET (1910-1975) A psychologist and psychoanalyst who practiced in...for doctors to do without the best psychologists." When the court rendered judgment...trial served to advance the cause of psychologists and lay psychoanalysis in France...
Delboeuf, Joseph Rémi Léopold (1831-1896)
Dictionary entry from: International Dictionary of Psychoanalysis ...1896) Joseph Delboeuf was a Belgian psychologist and hypnotherapist. He was born in...points of view and one that led the psychologist to articulate his conception of memory...Delboeuf, whom he quotes: "every psychologist must acknowledge even his weaknesses...

Thesaurus entries related to "psychologist"

analyst
Book article from: The Oxford American Writers Thesaurus analyst • noun  his analyst has recommended a rehabilitation facility synonyms : psychoanalyst, psychiatrist, psychologist, psychotherapist, therapist; informal shrink.
therapist
Book article from: The Oxford American Writers Thesaurus therapist • noun  events he would speak of only to his therapist synonyms : psychologist, psychotherapist, analyst, counselor, psychoanalyst, psychiatrist; informal shrink.

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Should psychologists have prescription privileges?
Magazine article from: USA Today (Magazine); 3/1/1998; ; 700+ words ; ...greater division between psychologists and other professions...psychology. Therefore, before psychologists become involved in prescribing...developed. According to psychologist Tom Kubiszyn, school psychologists, because of their training...
PSYCHOLOGISTS CITE FLAWS IN MANAGED CARE
Newspaper article from: The Record (Bergen County, NJ); 10/23/1997; ; 700+ words ; ...a majority of the psychologists who responded. Moreover...feelings of a group of psychologists," said Dr. Peggy...Rothbaum, a Westfield psychologist and one of the study...to see data." The psychologists identified several...
Psychologists and Guantanamo
Transcript from: NPR Talk of the Nation; 8/19/2008; ; 700+ words ; ...Today, we'll hear from psychologists on both sides. Later in...s world. But first, psychologists and interrogation. If you're a psychologist or a mental health professional, should psychologists work with military and intelligence...
Psychologists Split Over Detainee Interrogations
Transcript from: NPR All Things Considered; 8/15/2008; ; 700+ words ; ...the Guantanamo psychologist invoked the right...Ethics Code for psychologists says that psychologists...are true, that psychologists stepped over the...s what is the psychologist going to do at...Koocher, a Boston psychologist who was APA...consequences for psychologists who ...
Psychologists to Push Texas for Power to Prescribe.
Newspaper article from: Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News; 1/12/2003; 700+ words ; ...decision last year to allow psychologists to prescribe, the Texas...that isn't being met by psychologists. Enabling patients to receive...without having to see both a psychologist and psychiatrist makes great...behind New Mexico." The psychologists' push, evidence that the...
Are Psychologists Hiding Evidence?(Brief Article)
Magazine article from: Claims; 4/1/2000; ; 700+ words ; ...the information, so psychologists are compelled to interpret...For example, if a psychologist claims an attorney...cross-examine a psychologist?" When Standard...information? And if psychologists can give the data...client, why would the psychologist not be able to release...
Psychologists' Rx's May Be Stopped; Defense Department Experiment Allows Non-MDs to Write Prescriptions for Drugs;
Newspaper article from: The Washington Post; 8/1/1995; ; 700+ words ; ...problems. Clinical psychologists spend an average of...two with a senior psychologist before establishing...exams. Proponents of psychologists' prescription privileges...privileges for clinical psychologists who undergo additional...needs," explained psychologist Paul Bell, of Beaver...
Psychologists in physical health services in New Zealand.(Report)
Magazine article from: New Zealand Journal of Psychology; 7/1/2008; ; 700+ words ; ...about the DHB psychologist workforce...percent of DHB psychologists worked in physical...services. Psychologist positions in...mental health psychologist positions...utilisation of psychologists in physical...
Psychologists See Prescribing Rights As Inevitable.(Brief Article)
Magazine article from: Clinical Psychiatry News; 10/1/2001; ; 700+ words ; ...veto to give psychologists prescriptive...there in 1999. Psychologists have formed...was one of 10 psychologist graduates of...a decade, psychologist have pursued...practices. Health psychologists in Hawaii recently...
TRENDS: Psychologists aren't just for the couch.
Magazine article from: Recruiter; 10/14/2009; 700+ words ; ...branding problem. All psychologists have to endure jokes...such as "how many psychologists does it take to change...For the occupational psychologist there is the additional...you needn't be a psychologist to do this. I quite...published by Chartered psychologists will be developed...