Definition of Psychobiology

1. Noun. (psychology biology) The study of the biological basis for cognition and other mental processes ¹

2. Noun. (psychology) The branch of psychology that interprets psychological phenomena in terms of adaptation to biological, environmental etc factors ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Psychobiology

1. [n -GIES]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Psychobiology

psychobabbling
psychobehavioral
psychobehavioural
psychobilly
psychobiographer
psychobiographers
psychobiographic
psychobiographical
psychobiographies
psychobiography
psychobiologic
psychobiological
psychobiologies
psychobiologist
psychobiologists
psychobiology (current term)
psychobiotic
psychochemical
psychochemicals
psychodelic drug
psychodiagnostic
psychodid
psychodrama
psychodramas
psychodramatic
psychodramatically
psychodynamic
psychodynamically
psychodynamics
psychodysleptic

Literary usage of Psychobiology

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Foundations of Psychology by Jared Sparks Moore (1921)
"... and a compound science of psychobiology to study the complex behavior of the ... and reject psychology, thus leaving no room for psychobiology; ..."

2. Yearbook by American Psychological Association (1892)
"psychobiology, Yale School of Medicine, New Haven, Conn. *R., comp., gen't. ... Res'ch Asst. psychobiology, Yale Univ. Anthropoid Exper. ..."

3. Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society Held at Philadelphia for by American Philosophical Society (1914)
"We may, now, in just the same way, speak of biological psychology and of psychobiology; indeed, those terms are already in use, and their general ..."

4. A Psychiatric Milestone; Bloomingdale Hospital Centenary, 1821-1921 by New York Hospital Society (1921)
"... Progress in Teaching Psychiatry," Journal AMA, Chicago, 1917, LXIX, 861-863; see also his, "Objective psychobiology, or psychobiology with Subordination ..."

5. A Psychiatric Milestone; Bloomingdale Hospital Centenary, 1821-1921 by New York Hospital Society (1921)
"... Chicago, 1917, LXIX, 861-863; see a'so his, "Objective psychobiology, or psychobiology with Subordination of the Medically Useless Contrast of Medical ..."

6. Nervous and Mental Disease Monograph Series (1915)
""The first condition for productive work in this field of psychobiology as in any ... It is clear that psychobiology and psychopathology have principles to ..."

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