Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun An abbreviation of psychology.

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Examples

  • Furthermore, this etymological definition, “science of the soul,” hardly approaches the present meaning of the term psychol - ogy, since the word “science” here meant an a priori theory which was indifferent to the experimentation maintained by scientific psychology around 1860; and also, the word “soul” is a term which psychology has generally rejected because of the metaphysical and religious overtones it arouses.

    Dictionary of the History of Ideas FERNAND-LUCIEN MUELLER 1968

  • So I ended up taking both a lot -- courses in poetry but also courses in the psychol -- you know, the -- the -- the circuitry of the brain.

    Free Agent Nation: How America�s New Independent Workers are Transforming the Way We Live 2001

  • Mr. STEELE: She is a psychol -- a clinical psychologist in Monterey,

    A Dream Deferred: The Second Betrayal of Black Freedom in America 1998

  • An active preoccupation with the space of psychol - ogy continued into the beginnings of the twentieth century.

    SPACE SALOMON BOCHNER 1968

  • Inspired by the new physics, Hobbes was the first to reduce all things to nothing but bodies in motion; and since for him only efficient causes were real, psychol - ogy and epistemology became branches of mechanics like any other science of nature, except that imper - ceptibly minute motions were said to be involved in the entry of sense-impressions into the brain.

    Dictionary of the History of Ideas ARAM VARTANIAN 1968

  • Notwithstanding the merits of this specialized account of American psychol - ogy, Jay Warton Fay, American Psychology before William

    Dictionary of the History of Ideas MERLE CURTI 1968

  • Clark Hull, and others was fused into general psychol - ogy.

    Dictionary of the History of Ideas MERLE CURTI 1968

  • Avicenna's (Ibn Sina, 980-1037) treatises on psychol - ogy, for example, there are various degrees of abstrac - tion of forms which correspond to the ascending se - quence of cognitive powers, the sensitive, the imaginative, the estimative, and finally the intellective.

    Dictionary of the History of Ideas JULIUS WEINBERG 1968

  • By reason of his concern with psychopathology, the theory of the unconscious, and his intellectual hospitality, William James was predisposed to give psychoanalysis an open hearing, while G. Stanley Hall's interest in sex and the psychol - ogy of deviancy led him to invite Freud and Jung to

    Dictionary of the History of Ideas MERLE CURTI 1968

  • Aristotle regarded psychol - ogy as an aspect of physical science, and his own analysis is based on the principles which he lays down for all study of the natural world.

    Dictionary of the History of Ideas ANTHONY A. LONG 1968

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