psychologypsy‧chol‧o‧gy /saɪˈkɒlədʒi $ -ˈkɑː-/ ●●○ W3 AWL noun (plural psychologies) 
experts in the field of developmental psychology2[uncountable] the mental processes involved in believing in something or doing a certain activitypsychology of research into the psychology of racism3[countable, uncountable] what someone thinks or believes, and how this affects what they do: the psychology of three-year-olds mob psychology You have to use psychology to get people to stop smoking.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER DICTIONARIES
- a psychology class
- a terrorist's psychology
- clinical psychology
- But feminist psychology retains conventional psychology's resistance to making sexuality a topic of frequent or serious study.
- Developmental psychology is probably the liveliest speciality just now.
- For a number of years, he taught religion and psychology at Southern Methodist University in Dallas.
- Sociology was to study social systems, psychology studied personality systems, and anthropology was to concentrate on cultural systems.
- Unlike the versions of feminist psychology examined before, associative feminist psychologies are rarely deliberately or self-consciously adopted.
- What had I really learned from studying history and psychology and philosophy and literature?
WORD SETS
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COLLOCATIONS FROM THE ENTRY experts in the field of developmental psychologyCOLLOCATIONS FROM THE CORPUSADJECTIVE
experts in the field of developmental psychology· It is not taken seriously as academic or professional psychology.· First, however, it is necessary to consider the second line of research on creativity pursued in academic psychology.· An even more negative view of such studies has been taken in academic psychology.· Learning Learning has been a major topic within academic psychology for the past century or so.
· Day hospital places have also continued to increase, but in many districts clinical psychology services are underresourced.· Keeping the contract Martin Herbert, a professor of clinical psychology, has written an excellent book, Living with Teenagers.
· Holzner however describes the cognitive processes of the individual, borrowing both from cognitive psychology and from the phenomenology of Merleau-Ponty.· The research will draw on and integrate current work in artificial intelligence, linguistics, and cognitive psychology.· Associative priming is a well known phenomenon in cognitive psychology.
· Because egalitarian feminist psychology wants to adapt conventional psychology, rather than replace it, it has to begin from psychology's self-definition.· And so it starts to uncover the difficulties about psychologists which conventional psychology tries to ignore.· Egalitarian feminism also tries to bring women into psychology's subject matter by criticizing and developing the conventional psychology of women.· But feminist psychology retains conventional psychology's resistance to making sexuality a topic of frequent or serious study.
· Nothing in psychology hopes ever to work perfectly. Developmental psychology is probably the liveliest speciality just now.· He became a student of developmental psychology and reading theory.· It aims at amplifying the bare details of physical development and putting these into their context of emotional development and developmental psychology.· Marriage and family; Developmental psychology.
· A good place to begin is with the encounter of educational psychology and schooling.· Ethnic and race relations; Educational psychology.· Furthermore, the results will be relevant to educational psychology, socialization process, child rearing and moral development.· Courses in applied areas such as educational psychology are also taught.
· The first-year course provides students with an introduction to the main areas of contemporary experimental psychology.· The board approved doctorate degrees in communications and experimental psychology at North Dakota State University.· There are the facilities here, in the experimental psychology faculty.· Rivers played a fundamental role in the establishment of both experimental psychology and social anthropology as academic disciplines in Great Britain.· For example, the experimental style of psychology is very often treated as a precondition of effective theorising.· This departure from the rigid procedures of experimental psychology sets up a radical challenge to the conventional discipline.· In consequence, the sciences of animal behaviour and experimental psychology were founded by men deeply hostile to anthropomorphic explanations.· Professor Gregory is distinguished for his studies in experimental psychology, most notably in visual perception and the nature of visual illusions.
· The trouble is, this does not work, because it is untrue to human psychology.· Society is not the product of human psychology, it asserts, but vice versa.· Stevenson was deliberately seeking a plot that would allow him to explore an aspect of human psychology.· Yet human psychology does not work that way.
· By the same token, collective beliefs and behaviour can not be explained in terms of individual psychology.· Although Maslow offers us useful insights into individual psychology, his theory is open to a number of criticisms: 1.· Expressed in terms of individual psychology, the danger was one of dissolution of the painfully acquired superego and corresponding regression in the ego.· The division between individual and social psychology seems to disappear.
· If modern psychology has done one thing, it has surely made this fact abundantly clear.· Though he was a loyal soldier of the Counter-Reformation, Ignatius anticipated much of modern psychology.· We regard ourselves as being fully conscious then, and modern psychology supports that viewpoint.· But after the Council, the Church had opened itself increasingly to the insights of modern psychology and evolutionary biology.
· In this respect it is in agreement with those theorists who claim that social psychology should be an historical discipline.· Sociology was to study social systems, psychology studied personality systems, and anthropology was to concentrate on cultural systems.· An important question to ask about any new movement in social psychology is whether it proposes a universal or particular perspective.· Moscovici's formula that the new social psychology should be both anthropological and historical seems to suggest both possibilities.· One of the areas which the social psychology of envy illuminates best is the modem craze for policies of international aid.· Instead, they are questions about the sort of social vision which social psychology should express.· Thus his social psychology assumes the traditional bourgeois family structure as a norm.· Berger sees a discontinuity between the social psychology of Cooley and Mead and that of Freud.
· Its concern with celebrating femininity encourages it to pass over more of traditional psychology's gender biases than egalitarian feminist psychology does.· This convergence with traditional psychology is also expressed in an increasingly psychological approach.· Humanist psychology seems to avoid traditional psychology's obsession with objectivity.· Its address to discourse and the unconscious points to important uncertainties, which traditional psychology largely ignores.· From the perspective of traditional psychology, such psychologists are, even more than egalitarian feminist psychologists, reassuringly marginal.
NOUN· She was a tall, bespectacled spinster, who was very capable and well understood child psychology.· A professor of child psychology has been invited.· That, however, need not be a tension, according to Colwyn Trevarthen, professor of child psychology at Edinburgh University.· Once it used to be just child psychology but we now know that we develop all the time from womb to tomb.
· Such a climate increases the likelihood that egalitarian feminist psychology will be incorporated into the traditional discipline.· Because egalitarian feminist psychology wants to adapt conventional psychology, rather than replace it, it has to begin from psychology's self-definition.· But elements of a more ambivalent, productive, associative approach to signification also exist within feminist psychology.· Unlike the versions of feminist psychology examined before, associative feminist psychologies are rarely deliberately or self-consciously adopted.· Woman-centred methods restrict feminist psychology in other ways.
· But my psychology professors seemed not to care at all about minorities.· Gary Wells, a psychology professor at Iowa State University, suggested that posters with composite drawings asked the wrong questions.· Two university psychology professors say they have scientific evidence that southerners are more prone to violence than northerners.
VERB· Sociology was to study social systems, psychology studied personality systems, and anthropology was to concentrate on cultural systems.· What had I really learned from studying history and psychology and philosophy and literature?· Anyone who studies psychology must be motivated by a streak of optimism that people have the potential to change.· A couple of years later, Johnson was in college studying psychology when she heard that voice again.· People who study psychology never seem able to apply it to real life.
· It has been said that he understood the psychology of an orchestra better than almost any other conductor.· You have to understand a bit of psychology.· Models that do not necessarily follow biological structure may still help us understand fields such as psychology.
· Nothing in psychology hopes ever to work perfectly.· A month or so into the semester I visited the Social Science class, which was working its way through psychology.· Even women who try to work as feminists in psychology suffer from the ambiguities of tokenism.· There are few black or ethnic minority women or men working in western psychology.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
- It was a part of folk wisdom that providing houseroom for a widowed parent could lead to intense family friction.
- Like most folk wisdom it is true, I think.
- Like much political folk wisdom, this particular belief is of recent origin.
- Maxims, proverbs, and other forms of folk wisdom give a person reasons for obeying rules.
- Some of the new findings, though, support previously unsubstantiated folk wisdom about alcohol and caffeine.
- The folk wisdom led Tory politicians to dismiss opinion poll findings suggesting the opposite.
- Voters' trade-off between taxes and services has changed since 1979 - and anyway the folk wisdom was always misleading.
WORD FAMILYnounpsychologypsychologistadjectivepsychologicaladverbpsychologically
1[uncountable] the study of the mind and how it influences people’s behavioureducational/social etc psychology experts in the field of developmental psychology2[uncountable] the mental processes involved in believing in something or doing a certain activitypsychology of research into the psychology of racism3[countable, uncountable] what someone thinks or believes, and how this affects what they do: the psychology of three-year-olds mob psychology You have to use psychology to get people to stop smoking.