Occupation or Discipline
psychology Audio
psy·chol·o·gy [ sahy-kol-uh-jee ]
Subclass of:
Behavioral Sciences
Definitions related to psychology:
  • Study of mental and behavioral phenomena in individuals and groups; human and nonhuman species are included.
    CRISP Thesaurus
    National Institutes of Health, 2006
  • The science dealing with the study of mental processes and behavior in man and animals.
    NLM Medical Subject Headings
    U.S. National Library of Medicine, 2021
  • The study of behavior and cognition.
    NCI Thesaurus
    U.S. National Cancer Institute, 2021
  • Psychology, scientific discipline that studies mental states and processes and behaviour in humans and other animals. The discipline of psychology is broadly divisible into two parts: a large profession of practitioners and a smaller but growing science of mind, brain, and social behaviour. The two...
    Encyclopedia Britannica
    Encyclopedia Britannica, Inc., 2020
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