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What change in graduate education for the practice of psychology occurred during the post-schools era?

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What were some of the "active models of human nature" that were proposed during the post-schools era?

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\(\bullet\)Piaget's developmental stages \(\bullet\)Festinger's theory of cognitive dissonance \(\bullet\)Bandura's social learning theory \(\bullet\)Heider's person cognition \(\bullet\)Milgram's work on following orders \(\bullet\)Zimbardo's prison study

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The use of converging operations and operational triangulation was consistent with the tenets of philosophical or prescriptive operationism.

Who were some of the contributors to what has become known as "humanistic psychology?"

During the immediate post-schools era, there was substantial growth both in applied empirical psychology and especially in the professional practice of psychology.

The psychological treatment of war veterans for post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) during and following World War II was

The supply of well-trained practicing psychologists during the post-schools era continued to be increasingly insufficient to meet consumer demand.

The immediate post-schools era was a period of decline in interdisciplinary research and in the extramural sponsorship of psychological research.

During the immediate post-schools era, psychology became progressively a less unified discipline.

Among the figures in the spread of the empirical method to almost all areas of psychology during the post-schools era were

Sketch the growth of the practice of psychology during the twentieth century.

Herbert Simon's computer model of problem solving

Support for clinical psychology by the Veterans Administration declined rather sharply during the immediate post-schools era.

Compare and contrast prescriptive and descriptive operationism.

What was the influence of the quantification trend on psychology during the post-schools era?

Which of the following methods is an example of the strategy of descriptive operationism?

Empirical studies of such phenomena as attitudes, the effects of group pressure, and prejudice are examples of the spread of the empirical method into social psychology.

What has been the impact of computers on psychology?

How substantial is the evidential base for humanistic psychology?

What has been the main objection of humanistic psychologists to the rest of the field?