Psychology Definition

sī-kŏlə-jē
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noun
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The science dealing with the mind and with mental and emotional processes.
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The science of human and animal behavior.
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The sum of the actions, traits, attitudes, thoughts, mental states, etc. of a person or group.
The psychology of the adolescent.
Webster's New World
Techniques intended to manipulate another or others.
To use psychology on a stubborn child.
Webster's New World
The branch of metaphysics that studies the soul, the mind, and the relationship of life and mind to the functions of the body.
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psychology
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psychologies

Origin of Psychology

  • From French psychologie, from Latin psychologia (coined by Marko Marulić from Ancient Greek ψυχή (psukhÄ“, “soul") + -logia (“study of")).

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Psychology Sentence Examples

  • I got here early and was reading the highlighted portions of one of your psychology books.

  • An investigator, pledging himself to no beliefs - even perhaps one who definitely disbelieves and rejects theism - may yet interest himself in tracking out the psychology of religion.

  • He wrote both on psychology and on metaphysics, but is known especially as a historian of philosophy.

  • Her psychology is not subtle or profound, but her leading characters are clearly conceived and drawn in broad, bold outlines.

  • Sensations, he argued, thus being representable by numbers, psychology may become an "exact" science, susceptible of mathematical treatment.

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