单词 | psychophysics |
释义 | psychophysicsn. With singular agreement. The interaction between mental states and physical events and processes; (also) the branch of science that deals with these. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > psychology > experimental psychology > [noun] psychology1749 psychophysiology1839 physiopsychology1875 psychophysics1875 experimental psychology1878 psychosomatics1938 1875 N. Amer. Rev. July 201 Wundt's book has many shortcomings, but they only prove how confused and rudimentary the science of psycho-physics still is. 1893 Pall Mall Gaz. 30 Jan. 2/3 Mr. F. Galton was to lecture at the Royal Institution on ‘The Just-Perceptible Difference’... It turned out to be a discourse on the somewhat vague science known to experts as psycho-physics. 1937 Amer. Speech 12 228/1 On the psycho-physics of speech. 1973 C. D. Kernig Marxism, Communism & Western Society VII. 91/2 A distinction is made between (a) classical psychophysics in which the physiology of the senses is studied with the help of refined..techniques..; (b) activation (arousal) research, which is concerned with..conditions for the release and course of affective and motivational states. 1994 Nature 28 July 260/3 Electrophysiology is inexplicably viewed as objective in a way that psychophysics is not. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2007; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1875 |
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