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Psychology
Undergraduate 2
05/06/2012

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Psychosocial Stages
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System Erik Erikson perferred, turning points from infancy to old age, psychological and social task that must be mastered if maturation is to proceed in a healthy fashion.
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Neurosis
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Kevin Horney said that this arises more from envrioment than from biolgical instincts
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Innate striving for superiority
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Adlers main driving force was an
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Ego
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What did Adler make the center of his indivudial psychology
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Artist and Mystics
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Karl Jung's ideas about archetypes were more influential among what group
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Anima, Persona, Animus, Extroversion, Introversion
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Jung's Main Contributions were the concept(s) of
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Hermeneutics
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Science of Interpretation
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Exegesis
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Critical Interpretation
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behavior to be interpreted
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Freud thought there was a need for
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Wish Fulfillment
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Freud's Religion was
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Fixation
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Focus on earlier psychosexual stages where conflicts were not resolved
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Obsession
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Repetitive Thoughts
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Compulsion
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Unwelcomed Behaviors
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Projection
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To attribute your own feelings to other objects
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Sublimation
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Form of displacement where emotion is shifted to a safer objection
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Reaction Formation
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When you claim to desire the opposite it is of what your really wanted
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Regression
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To go to an earlier safer age (exhibiting behavior of earlier psychosexual stage)
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Repression
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Actively stopping the entrance of unacceptable thoughts
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Positive, Negative, Counter
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3 Types of Transference
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Dreams
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Latent+Manifestation content, understood first through free association and then later by symbols
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Wish Fulfillment
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The key to dreams according to Freud
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Seduction Error
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Freuds thought that neurosis was due to sexual abuse but then he changed the etiology to sexual fantasies.
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Neurology
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What Freud was trained in
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Psychoanalysis
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What did Pierre Janet's work lead to
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Oversimplification, Misplaced Emphasis, Pure Invention
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McHugh's Medical Mistakes included
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Recovered Memories
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Third area of social misdirection
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Boulder Model
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Thought that psychologist shoudl be trained as scientist first
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Iatrogenic
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Spanos thought that MPD was ? meaning it was caused by therapy
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Increased
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Psychologist began to perform psychotherapy during WWII because the number of Veterans
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Social and Cultural
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Mental illness is a __________ invention
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Eysenck
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Produced the concept of Neurotcism, Stablity/Instability, Intro and Extro Version, similar to Galen's personality types
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Brunswick
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First used the concept of ecological validity
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Seligman
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Studied the concept of "Learned Helplessness"
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Miller
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Contributed to the knowledge of the function of the hypothalamus
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Etiology
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Study of the causes of diseases
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Syndrome
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2 or more symptoms occuring together
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Comorbidity
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to have 2 or more syndromes
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Existentialism
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Philosophy that stresses isolation of the individual in a hostile universe & emphasizes freedom of choice & responsibility for consequences
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Rogers
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Focused on Client-Centered therapy, was part of humanistic rejection to behaviorism and psychoanalysis
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Maslow
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Known for the creation of the Hierarchy of Needs
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Beck
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Thought that panic disorder was on misinterpretation of bodily sensations; and that depression was due to negative emotions
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Authoritarian
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Type of parent that imposes rules and demand obedience
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Authoritative
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Type of parent that set rules and give good reasons
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Pascal
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Invented mathematical calculator
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Jefferson
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Got the idea that all people are created equal from La Mettrie
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Content Validity
Definition
Does the test sample the behavior of interest
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Construct Validity
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Does test correlate with theory
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Concurrent Validity
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Does test correlate with other test
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Attitude
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belief or feeling that predisposes you to behave in a particular way
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Idiographic Study
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Intensive study of an individual case
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Nomothetic
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A group study, statistical analysis, search for general laws
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Longitudinal Study
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Study that follows a group over time
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Cross Sectional Study
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Study that investigates several groups at the same time
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Cattel
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Introduced the terms fluid and crystallized
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Anastasi
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Clarified 3 important points in testing; reliability, validity, and generalizability
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Objective Test
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Type of test that can be scored by computer
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Standardization
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to define scores by comparison with the performance of a pre-tested group
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Intelligence
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refers to the ability to learn, remember information, and use it correctly to solve problems
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Spearman
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Inventor of factor analysis
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Guilford
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Aruged that intelligence had more than 100 components
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Sternberg
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Aruged for 3 types of intelligence; analytical, creative, and practical
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Gardner
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Says that there are 7 different types of intelligence
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Creativity
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Ablilty to create novel and valuable ideas
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Flynn Effect
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shows a steay increase of in IQ points
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Cosmogony
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Theory of the origin of the universe
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Cosmology
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Theory of the structure of the universe, usually concerned with space, time, causality, and freedom
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Cognitive
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This type of psychological science dominates psyhology by the 1970's
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Piaget
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Credit for the return of cognitive psychology should be given to
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Piaget
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Emphasized that cognitive development is qualitative
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Piaget
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Had four stages of cognitive development
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Shannon
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Introduced us to information theory
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Miller
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Gave us the magical number "7+/-2"
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Cybernetics
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Study of control processes in animals and machines
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Chomsky
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Psycholinguist
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Godels Proof
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Implies that humans are not computer programs.
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Smolensky
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Distinguished between the conscious processor and the intuitive processor
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Kohlberg
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His theory of moral development; preconventional, conventional and postconventional
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Cognitive Revolution
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Cognition is the human mind not the brain
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Ebbinghaus
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Showed that the length of list and time since learned were important IV's; used relearning as DV in his memory experiments
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Engram
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Lasting physiological alteration hypothesized to occur when neural tissue is stimulated and accounts for memory
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Information-Processing Model
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Consist of 3 processes of memory; encoding, storage, retrieval
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Semantic Encoding
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refers to processing of meaning
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7+/-2
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Capacity of Short Term Memory
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Implicit Memory
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Has two components; procedural and disposition memory
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Rehearsal
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Conscious repitition of information in order to retain it
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Mnemonics
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Memory tricks usually used in semantic memories
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Retroactive Interference
Yes this is correct; seems counterintuitive
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New info interferes with old memory
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Proactive Inhibition
Yes this is correct; seems counterintuitive
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Old info intereferes with new memory
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Loftus
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Pioneer in witness inaccuracy and recovered memories
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Cognitive Dissonance
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Discomfort that we feel when we have two thoughts that are inconsistent
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Bystander Effect
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The fact that people are less likely to give aid in an emergency if many other people are present
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Divided Consciouness Theory
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Hypnosis=altered state of consciousness
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Orne and Evans
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Discovered unhypnotized subjects perfomed the same dangerous acts as hypnotized patients
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Turing Test
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Computer can think like humans
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Restriction of Range
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GRE score does not accurately = GPA of Graduate Student GPA
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Demand Characteristics
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Hawthorne effect is an example of
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Witmer
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1st Psychological Clininc opened by
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