<B>psychodynamics, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>the science, usually classified as a branch of psychology, that deals with psychodynamic phenomena. <DD><B> 2. </B>psychodynamic factors or phenomena. <BR> <I>Ex. the psychodynamics of the intellectual reaction between people, books, and nature (Edwin G. Boring).</I> </DL>
<A NAME="psychogalvanic">
<B>psychogalvanic, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> of or having to do with the electrical responses of the body to mental or emotional stimuli. <BR> <I>Ex. They are now using, ... scientific devices like the psychogalvanic skin response test to see how people like television programs (Maclean's).</I> </DL>
<A NAME="psychogalvanometer">
<B>psychogalvanometer, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> a galvanometer that records and measures decreases in the electrical resistance of the skin in response to emotional stimuli, such as those evoked by a series of selected pictures. </DL>
<A NAME="psychogenesis">
<B>psychogenesis, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>the origin or development of the mind or soul. <DD><B> 2. </B>animal evolution due to mental activity rather than to natural selection. </DL>
<A NAME="psychogenetic">
<B>psychogenetic, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> having to do with the formation of the mind by development. adv. <B>psychogenetically.</B> </DL>
<A NAME="psychogenetics">
<B>psychogenetics, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>the study of the genetic components of mental disorders. <DD><B> 2. </B>the study of psychogenesis. </DL>
<A NAME="psychogenic">
<B>psychogenic, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> of mental origin. <BR> <I>Ex. psychogenic symptoms of a disorder.</I> adv. <B>psychogenically.</B> </DL>
<A NAME="psychogeriatric">
<B>psychogeriatric, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> of or having to do with psychogeriatrics. <BR> <I>Ex. Small psychogeriatric units attached to general hospitals ... avoid the stigma of a mental hospital (London Times).</I> </DL>
<A NAME="psychogeriatrics">
<B>psychogeriatrics, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> the study of the psychological problems and mental illnesses of old age. <BR> <I>Ex. In the expanding field of psychogeriatrics these drugs will ... help to replace the present fear of death with the possibility of educating patients into the acceptance of their own forthcoming end (New Scientist).</I> </DL>
<A NAME="psychognosis">
<B>psychognosis, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> the study of the mind or soul. </DL>
<B>psychogony, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> the origin and development of the soul or mind. </DL>
<A NAME="psychogram">
<B>psychogram, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>(Psychology.) a chart or record of a person's mental makeup. <DD><B> 2. </B>a writing or message supposedly sent by a disembodied spirit or produced by a psychic agency. </DL>
<A NAME="psychograph">
<B>psychograph, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> (Psychology.) a chart or biographical sketch indicating the various factors in a particular individual's personality. </DL>
<A NAME="psychographic">
<B>psychographic, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> of or having to do with psychography. </DL>
<A NAME="psychographics">
<B>psychographics, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> the use of psychographs and psychography in market research. <BR> <I>Ex. Psychographics ... attempts to determine why people of similar educational and economic backgrounds develop different buying habits (Time).</I> </DL>
<A NAME="psychography">
<B>psychography, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>the history or description of a person's mental processes. <BR> <I>Ex. You aim, then, at a sort of spiritual biography of your subject--what has recently been called a psychography (London Daily Chronicle).</I> <DD><B> 2. </B>writing supposed to be due to a disembodied spirit. </DL>
<A NAME="psychohistorian">
<B>psychohistorian, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> a person who writes about history from a psychological point of view. </DL>
<A NAME="psychohistorical">
<B>psychohistorical, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> of or having to do with psychohistory or the psychological aspects of history. <BR> <I>Ex. psychohistorical insight.</I> </DL>
<A NAME="psychohistory">
<B>psychohistory, </B>noun, pl. <B>-ries.</B><DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>a historical account written from a psychological point of view. <DD><B> 2. </B>the writing of such a history or histories. <BR> <I>Ex. Mazlish is at his worst fiddling around with "orality" and "anality" ... At his modest best, he offers this experiment in psychohistory as "a sketch" that "might inspire others to further effort" (Newsweek).</I> </DL>
<A NAME="psychokinesis">
<B>psychokinesis, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> the supposed ability of a person to exert influence upon the movement of inanimate objects, such as the rolling of dice or the turning of cards. <BR> <I>Ex. Psychokinesis (the "mind over matter" effect) is not yet a scientifically proven effect (New Scientist).</I> </DL>
<A NAME="psychokinetic">
<B>psychokinetic, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> of or having to do with psychokinesis. <BR> <I>Ex. a study of telepathic and psychokinetic phenomena.</I> </DL>
<B>psychological, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>of the mind. Memories and dreams are psychological processes. <BR> <I>Ex. For three days the fathers faced a barrage of psychological tests, interviews, and group activities (Newsweek).</I> <DD><B> 2. </B>of psychology or psychologists. <BR> <I>Ex. a psychological problem, a psychological explanation. It sought also to restore economic health, psychological self-confidence and military vigor (New York Times).</I> <DD><B> 3. </B>like psychology. </DL>
<A NAME="psychologically">
<B>psychologically, </B>adverb.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>in a psychological manner. <DD><B> 2. </B>in psychological respects. <BR> <I>Ex. It takes art to persuade us that psychologically we are all of us, in T. S. Eliot's phrase, eaten by the same worm (Wall Street Journal).</I> </DL>
<A NAME="psychologicalmoment">
<B>psychological moment,</B><DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>the very moment to get the desired effect in the mind. <DD><B> 2. </B>the critical moment. </DL>
<A NAME="prowestern">
<B>pro-Western, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> (formerly) on the side of the West; favoring the anti-Communist countries or their policies. <BR> <I>Ex. Most papers, basing their foreign coverage on dispatches from the West, have a pro-Western coloring (Atlantic).</I> </DL>
<A NAME="psychologism">
<B>psychologism, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>the use, especially the excessive use, of psychological methods or principles, as in history, philosophy, or literature. <BR> <I>Ex. In history Namier pretended to be advocating a ruthless materialism, while actually encouraging a crude kind of psychologism (John Rex).</I> <DD><B> 2. </B>a term or idea used in or popularized by psychology. <BR> <I>Ex. ... an odd assortment of flamboyant reach-me-down psychologisms (H. R. F. Keating).</I> </DL>
<A NAME="psychologist">
<B>psychologist, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> an expert in psychology. <BR> <I>Ex. A psychologist ... is trained to understand the mind and its activities (Marguerite Clark).</I> </DL>
<A NAME="psychologistic">
<B>psychologistic, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> of or characterized by psychologism. <BR> <I>Ex. Fielding has been criticized again and again by a psychologistic age for his characters' total lack of interiority (Kenneth Rexroth).</I> </DL>
<A NAME="psychologize">
<B>psychologize, </B>intransitive verb, transitive verb, <B>-gized,</B> <B>-gizing.</B><DL COMPACT><DD> to investigate by psychological methods. <BR> <I>Ex. A man about town does not psychologize himself, he accepts his condition with touching simplicity (John Galsworthy).</I> noun <B>psychologizer.</B> </DL>
<A NAME="psychologue">
<B>psychologue, </B>noun. =psychologist.</DL>
<A NAME="psychology">
<B>psychology, </B>noun, pl. <B>-gies.</B><DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>the science of the mind. Psychology tries to explain why people act, think, and feel as they do. <BR> <I>Ex. As psychology analyzes mental processes, so sociology analyzes social processes (Emory S. Bogardus).</I> <DD><B> 2. </B>a textbook or handbook of psychology. <DD><B> 3. </B>the mental states and processes of a person or persons; mental nature and behavior. <BR> <I>Ex. Mrs. Jones knew her husband's psychology. The long illness had a bad effect on the patient's psychology.</I> </DL>
<A NAME="psychomancy">
<B>psychomancy, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>occult communication between souls or with spirits. <DD><B> 2. </B>(Obsolete.) necromancy. </DL>
<A NAME="psychomantic">
<B>psychomantic, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> of or having to do with psychomancy. </DL>
<A NAME="psychometer">
<B>psychometer, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>an instrument used in psychometry. <DD><B> 2. </B>a person supposed to possess the faculty of psychometry. </DL>
