psychology
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English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]FromFrenchpsychologie,fromRenaissance Latinpsychologia,fromAncient Greekψυχή(psukhḗ,“soul”)+-λογία(-logía,“study of”),equivalent topsycho-+-logy.The Latin term is believed by some to have been coined in a lost treatise by Croatian humanistMarko Marulić(1450–1524), but this is disputed by other scholars. It is first attested in the 1570s, at which time it was apparently already current, and may be a Hellenization of the established expressiondēanimā(“on the soul”)in titles.[1]
Pronunciation
[edit]- (Received Pronunciation)enPR:sī-kŏlʹə-jē,IPA(key):/saɪˈkɒl.ə.d͡ʒɪ/
- (General American)IPA(key):/saɪˈkɑ.lə.d͡ʒi/
Audio(California): (file)
- (General Australian)IPA(key):/sɑɪˈkɔl.ə.d͡ʒɪ/
- Rhymes:-ɒlədʒi
- Hyphenation:psy‧chol‧o‧gy
Noun
[edit]psychology(countableanduncountable,pluralpsychologies)
- (uncountable)Thestudyof thehumanmind.
- 2023,Friedrich Nietzsche,Twilight of the Idols: Bilingual English & German Edition,Newcomb Livraria Press,→ISBN,page 9:
- Idleness is the beginning of allpsychology.
- (uncountable)The study of human oranimalbehavior.
- (uncountable,chieflyhistorical)The study of thesoul.
- 2010,Harold Tarrant, “Platonism before Plotinus”, inLloyd P. Gerson,editor,The Cambridge History of Philosophy in Late Antiquity,volume 1,→ISBN:
- (countable)The mental, emotional, and behavioral characteristics pertaining to a specified person, group, or activity.
- 1970,Mary M. Luke,A Crown for Elizabeth,page 8:
- For generations, historians have conjectured everything from a warpedpsychologyto a deformed body as accounting for Elizabeth's preferred spinsterhood...
- 1969,Victor Alba,The Latin Americans,page42:
- In the United States, thepsychologyof a laborer, a farmer, a businessman does not differ in any important respect.
Holonyms
[edit]Derived terms
[edit]- abnormal psychology
- act psychology
- antipsychology
- armchair psychology
- behavioral psychology
- behavioural psychology
- biological psychology
- biopsychology
- chronopsychology
- clinical psychology
- cod psychology
- cognitive psychology
- content psychology
- criminal psychology
- crowd psychology
- cyberpsychology
- depth psychology
- depth-psychology
- developmental psychology
- differential psychology
- ecopsychology
- educational psychology
- ethnopsychology
- evolutionary psychology
- geropsychology
- Gestalt psychology
- gestalt psychology
- individual psychology
- industrial-organizational psychology
- metapsychology
- morphopsychology
- neuropsychology
- orthopsychology
- paedopsychology
- paidopsychology
- palaeopsychology
- parapsychology
- pedopsychology
- personality psychology
- political psychology
- positive psychology
- psychologism
- psychologist
- psychologylike
- reverse psychology
- robopsychology
- social psychology
- sociopsychology
- telepsychology
- xenopsychology
- zoopsychology
- zoöpsychology
Related terms
[edit]Translations
[edit]study of the human mind
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the study of human or animal behavior
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the mental characteristics of a particular individual
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References
[edit]- ^Vidal, Fernando (2011)The Sciences of the Soul: The Early Modern Origins of Psychology,University of Chicago Press,pages25–26
Further reading
[edit]- “psychology”,inWebster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary,Springfield, Mass.:G. & C. Merriam,1913,→OCLC.
- “psychology”,inThe Century Dictionary[…],New York, N.Y.:The Century Co.,1911,→OCLC.
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