Introduction to Psychology and Key Figures

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What school of psychology emphasizes the importance of unconscious motives and conflicts as determinants of human behavior?

Psychoanalysis

Evolutionary psychologists believe that human behaviors like aggressive behavior and mate selection have a basis in:

Hereditary influences

Which field of psychology focuses on relationships between people and work?

Industrial psychology

'Describing, explaining, predicting, and controlling behavior and mental processes' are the key goals of:

Psychology as a whole

Which type of psychologists make technical systems more user-friendly, such as automobile dashboards and computer keyboards?

Human factors psychologists

Experimental psychologists specialize in studying basic processes related to which of the following?

Emotion, motivation, and thought

'Identifying and measuring human traits and determining influences on human thought, process, feelings, and behavior' is the focus of which field of psychology?

Personality psychology

Explore the basics of psychology, from the study of behavior and mental processes to the contributions of key figures like Sigmund Freud. Learn about evolutionary psychology and the goals of the field.

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