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psychogeˈnetics
[f. psycho- + genetics.]
1. The branch of psychology which is concerned with the effects of breeding or inheritance on behaviour.
1951C. S. Hall in S. S. Stevens Handbk. Exper. Psychol. ix. 304/1 This encouraging trend will ultimately give status and stature to an interdisciplinary science of psychogenetics. The psychogeneticist of the future will presumably be trained in the methods and techniques of both genetics and psychology. 1954Brit. Jrnl. Psychol. XLV. 309 This book should be studied..by the psychogeneticists. 1960P. L. Broadhurst in H. J. Eysenck Exper. in Personality I. i. 5 The use of different strains, particularly of rats and mice, has long been a favourite method of psychogenetics. Bagg was a pioneer in the application of ‘the methods of genetics to the study of conduct’. 1975Nature 30 Oct. 832/2 The perspectives of ethology, physiological psychology, psychogenetics, social psychology..are all represented to some degree.
2. = psychogenesis 1.
1964Eng. Stud. XLV. Suppl. 104 Locke's empiricism takes its place in the field of psychogenetics; he asks the question: where does human understanding come from? |