PSYCHOLOGY in a Sentence

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But others in the professional psychological field regard the institution as an effective and important way of dealing with grief.

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 Meanings and Examples of PSYCHOLOGY
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
psychology
 n.  science that deals with mental processes and behavior
Classic Sentence: (19 in 2 pages)
1  She had made a list of thirty European novels of the past ten years, with twenty important books on psychology, education, and economics which the library lacked.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XIX
2  Everywhere Carol heard that the war was going to bring a basic change in psychology, to purify and uplift everything from marital relations to national politics, and she tried to exult in it.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXIII
3  They were determining the exact psychology of Dave Dyer in standing pat, two hours before.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXIV
4  He began to wonder whether we could ever make psychology so absolute a science that each little spring of life would be revealed to us.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 4
5  He used to wonder at the shallow psychology of those who conceive the ego in man as a thing simple, permanent, reliable, and of one essence.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 11
6  Your friend Lord Henry Wotton can't have taught you much about psychology, whatever else he has taught you.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 14
7  And since the field of life is largely an artificially-lighted stage today, the stories were curiously true to modern life, to the modern psychology, that is.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 2
8  That's a simple point of psychology.
The Time Machine By H. G. Wells
Context  Highlight   In I
9  There is a whole psychology in all this, though.
Notes from the Underground By Feodor Dostoevsky
Context  Highlight   In PART 1: XI
10  We feel and know that there are many delicate differences in race psychology, numberless changes that our crude social measurements are not yet able to follow minutely, which explain much of history and social development.
The Souls of Black Folk By W. E. B. Du Bois
Context  Highlight   In IX
11  He says that I afford him a curious psychological study, and I humbly think I do.
Dracula By Bram Stoker
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER V
12  He knew the precise psychological moment when to say nothing.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 2
13  His sudden mad love for Sibyl Vane was a psychological phenomenon of no small interest.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 4
14  It has no psychological value at all.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 18
15  There was a singular circumstance that characterised Mr. Dimmesdale's psychological state at this moment.
The Scarlet Letter By Nathaniel Hawthorne
Context  Highlight   In XII. THE MINISTER'S VIGIL
Example Sentence: (28 in 2 pages)
1  She had an undergraduate degree in psychology.
2  The magazine covers a broad range of subjects, from sewing to psychology.
3  The tabloid newspapers have fastened on popular psychology.
4  The professor is a specialist of studying a criminal's psychology.
5  The answers we give will reflect our own psychology.
6  Freudian theory has had a great influence on psychology.
7  One of the things we always focus on in psychology is that you have to separate the behavior from the person.
8  She has degrees in sociology, psychology and is "a recognized expert" in the field of diversity training.
9  Pavlov's experiment in which he trains a dog to salivate on hearing a bell is a paradigm of the conditioned-response experiment in behavioral psychology.
10  In psychology, a behavior or trait is adaptive when it helps an individual adjust within a changing social environment.
11  They chose the right psychological moment to announce the plans.
12  His early years in the refugee camp left a deep psychological scar.
13  Each employee brings his or her own psychological baggage to the workplace.
14  Victory in the last game gave them a psychological advantage over their opponents.
15  But others in the professional psychological field regard the institution as an effective and important way of dealing with grief.