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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From French psychologie, from Renaissance Latin psychologia (coined by Marko Marulić[1][2][3] from Ancient Greek ψυχή (psukhḗ, “soul”) + -logia (“study of”)), equivalent to psycho- + -logy.
Pronunciation[edit]
- (General American) enPR: sī-kŏlʹə-jē, IPA(key): /saɪˈkɑlədʒi/
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /saɪˈkɒlədʒɪ/
Audio (US) (file) - Rhymes: -ɒlədʒi
- Hyphenation: psy‧chol‧o‧gy
Noun[edit]
psychology (countable and uncountable, plural psychologies)
- (uncountable) The study of the human mind.
- (uncountable) The study of human behavior.
- (uncountable) The study of animal behavior.
- (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 warped psychology to a deformed body as accounting for Elizabeth's preferred spinsterhood...
- 1969, Victor Alba, The Latin Americans, page 42:
- In the United States, the psychology of a laborer, a farmer, a businessman does not differ in any important respect.
Derived terms[edit]
- abnormal psychology
- antipsychology
- behavioral psychology
- behavioural psychology
- biological psychology
- biopsychology
- chronopsychology
- clinical psychology
- cognitive psychology
- criminal psychology
- crowd psychology
- cyberpsychology
- depth psychology
- depth-psychology
- differential psychology
- ecopsychology
- ethnopsychology
- evolutionary psychology
- geropsychology
- metapsychology
- morphopsychology
- neuropsychology
- orthopsychology
- paedopsychology
- paidopsychology
- palaeopsychology
- parapsychology
- pedopsychology
- psychologism
- psychologist
- psychologylike
- reverse psychology
- robopsychology
- social psychology
- social-psychology
- sociopsychology
- telepsychology
- xenopsychology
- zoopsychology
- zoöpsychology
Related terms[edit]
Translations[edit]
study of the human mind
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the study of the human behavior
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the study of animal behavior
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the mental characteristics of a particular individual
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Further reading[edit]
- psychology in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
- psychology in The Century Dictionary, The Century Co., New York, 1911
- ^ Darko Zubrinic, Zagreb (1995) Croatian Humanists, Ecumenists, Latinists, and Encyclopaedists. croatianhistory.net
- ^ “psihologija”, in Hrvatski jezični portal[1] (in Croatian), accessed 3 June 2013
- ^ Vidal, Fernando (2011) The Sciences of the Soul: The Early Modern Origins of Psychology[2], University of Chicago Press, page 25
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