Definition of Psychophysics

1. Noun. The branch of psychology concerned with quantitative relations between physical stimuli and their psychological effects.


Definition of Psychophysics

1. n. The science of the connection between nerve action and consciousness; the science which treats of the relations of the psychical and physical in their conjoint operation in man; the doctrine of the relation of function or dependence between body and soul.

Definition of Psychophysics

1. Noun. (psychology) The branch of psychology concerned with the effects of physical stimuli on mental processes ¹

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Definition of Psychophysics

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Lexicographical Neighbors of Psychophysics

psychophant
psychophants
psychopharmaceutical
psychopharmaceuticals
psychopharmacologic
psychopharmacological
psychopharmacologically
psychopharmacologist
psychopharmacologists
psychopharmacology
psychophony
psychophylaxis
psychophysical
psychophysically
psychophysicist
psychophysics (current term)
psychophysiological
psychophysiologically
psychophysiologist
psychophysiologists
psychophysiology
psychopolitical
psychopolitics
psychopomp
psychopomps
psychorubin
psychos
psychoses

Literary usage of Psychophysics

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

1. A History of Psychology by Otto Klemm (1914)
"The New Foundation of Psychical Measurement Out of the controversy over Fechner's psychophysics, which is the principal feature of the psychology of the ..."

2. A History of Psychology by Otto Klemm (1914)
"The New Foundation of Psychical Measurement Out of the controversy over Fechner's psychophysics, which is the principal feature of the psychology of the ..."

3. A History of Psychology by Otto Klemm (1914)
"possibility of all psychophysics, and Fechner himself saw in this a fundamental objection to which one only needed to consent in order to get rid, ..."

4. German Psychology of To-day: The Empirical School by Théodule Ribot, James Mark Baldwin (1886)
"... V. FECHNER AND psychophysics. I. IN the domain of experimental psychology, few men have published researches as original and as warmly debated as Gustav ..."

5. Psychology by Michael Maher (1890)
"psychophysics.—By observing and comparing sensations varying in intensity, Weber, and later on, Fechner, discovered that the quantity of increment necessary ..."

6. Time and Free Will: An Essay on the Immediate Data of Consciousness by Henri Bergson (1910)
"The whole of psychophysics is involved in this transition, which is therefore worthy of our closest consideration. We shall distinguish several different ..."

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