AP PSYCHOLOGY

Detailed explanation-1: -The Emergence of Social Psychology Specifically, psychiatrists and psychologists pointed to how motivation and morale were affected by social support among their fellow soldiers. These findings would fuel the emergence of social psychology upon the post-WWII landscape.

Detailed explanation-2: -More than half a million service members suffered some sort of psychiatric collapse due to combat. Alarmingly, 40 percent of medical discharges during the war were for psychiatric conditions. The vast majority of those can be attributed to combat stress.

Detailed explanation-3: -Many psychologists claim that World War 2 was most responsible for the emergence of social and cultural psychology as legitimate areas of science.

Detailed explanation-4: -What effect did World War II have on the development of modern clinical psychology? WW2 created a case overload for psychiatrists which prompted the federal government to fund clinical psychology graduate students making them experts in diagnoses, therapy, all age groups, and on part with psychiatrists.