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Definition of Comparative psychology
1. Noun. The branch of psychology concerned with the behavior of animals.
Medical Definition of Comparative psychology
1. A branch of psychology concerned with the study and comparison of the behaviour of organisms at different levels of phylogenic development to discover developmental trends. (05 Mar 2000)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Comparative Psychology
Literary usage of Comparative psychology
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Popular Science Monthly (1893)
"THE PROBLEMS OF comparative psychology.* BY JOSEPH JASTROW, Pn. D., ...
comparative psychology finds its origin and its material in the variety of animal ..."
2. The American Journal of Psychology by Granville Stanley Hall, Edward Bradford Titchener (1899)
"SUGGESTIONS TOWARD A LABORATORY COURSE IN comparative psychology. ... The following
experiments in comparative psychology were devised to fill a small part ..."
3. Psychological Review by American Psychological Association (1895)
"Mr. Morgan's 'Introduction to comparative psychology' is an attempt to clear the
ground for a science that has suffered thus far from the homocentric ..."
4. The Quarterly Review by William Gifford, George Walter Prothero, John Gibson Lockhart, John Murray, Whitwell Elwin, John Taylor Coleridge, Rowland Edmund Prothero Ernle, William Macpherson, William Smith (1897)
"But, in order to investigate this comparative psychology, we have not only to
study matters external to the mind, but also to estimate and weigh a large ..."
5. Science by American Association for the Advancement of Science (1899)
"In comparative psychology, Dr. Edward Thorndike will give a course of lectures
on the Sense-powers, Instincts, Habits and Intelligence of Animals, ..."
6. The New Englander by William Lathrop Kingsley (1878)
"PRESIDENT BASCOM, in his comparative psychology,* has made a good beginning in
a field of observation and theory which in this country has been very ..."
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