psychology

Meaning

1. (uncountable) The study of the human mind.
2. (uncountable) The study of human or animal behavior.
3. (historical, uncountable) The study of the soul.
4. (countable) The mental, emotional, and behavioral characteristics pertaining to a specified person, group, or activity.

Synonyms

social science

psychological science

psych

psychics

psychogenic

psychological

social studies

communication studies

economics

psychiatry

study of mind

science of mind

psychonomy

criminology

memntal process

mental

mentality

political science

Translations

psychologie

psicología

Psychologie

psychologie

psicologia

psicologia

ψυχολογία

psicologia

psikoloji

psychologia

zielkunde

ruh bilimi

علم النفس

Seelenkunde

Pronounced as (IPA)

/saɪˈkɒl.ə.d͡ʒɪ/

Etymology

From French psychologie, from Renaissance Latin psychologia, from Ancient Greek ψυχή (psukhḗ, “soul”) + -λογία (-logía, “study of”), equivalent to psycho- + -logy. The Latin term is believed by some to have been coined in a lost treatise by Croatian humanist Marko Marulić (1450–1524), but this is disputed by other scholars. It is first attested in the 1570s, at which time it was apparently already current, and may be a Hellenization of the established expression dē animā (“on the soul”) in titles.

Sentences

This took on core notions in cognitive psychology and in particular memory and attribution .