APA Dictionary of Psychology

school

Updated on 04/19/2018

a place or institution where people receive instruction.
a major division of a university consisting of specialized, related subdivisions devoted to teaching, research, and scholarship.
the adherents, collectively, of an approach to some field of subject matter having a developed theoretical framework and an associated literature. Examples of schools of psychology are behaviorism, functionalism, Gestalt psychology, structuralism, and psychoanalysis.

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