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单词 psychophysics
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psychophysicsn.

Brit. /ˌsʌɪkəʊˈfɪzɪks/, U.S. /ˌsaɪkəˈfɪzɪks/
Origin: Formed within English, by compounding; modelled on a German lexical item. Etymons: psycho- comb. form, physics n.
Etymology: < psycho- comb. form + physics n., after German Psychophysik (G. T. Fechner 1859, in Abhandlungen der mathematisch-physischen Classe der königlich sächsischen Gesellschaft der Wissenschaften 4 455). Compare French psychophysique interaction between mental states and physical events and processes (1869 in Littré), branch of science that studies them (1889, with reference to Fechner's research; after German). Compare later psychophysic adj.
With singular agreement. The interaction between mental states and physical events and processes; (also) the branch of science that deals with these.
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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).
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