experimental psychology
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- noun
- /ɪkˌspɛrɪˈmɛntəl saɪˈkɒlədʒi/
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psicología experimental
- Many researchers in experimental psychology use controlled experiments to analyze behavior and cognitive processes.
- Experimental Psychology journal
- Experimental Psychology: Learning and Memory
- Experimental Psychology: Learning
Examples
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Leta became interested in experimental psychology while assisting Harry in an experiment on the effects of caffeine on mental and motor abilities.
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He wrote a thesis that contributed to the field of experimental psychology by investigating the effects of sleep deprivation on memory.
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Introspection was cast out of experimental psychology a very long time ago.
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This liability to error has made syllogism solving a popular field of investigation in experimental psychology.
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The tests chosen for the current study are tests that are traditionally used in the area of experimental psychology to measure hand-eye coordination.
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This is especially important for the application of our instrument to corpus linguistics and experimental psychology.
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Following a stint as a lecturer in experimental psychology at Cambridge, he went to work for the London County Council in 1913.
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Behavioral pharmacology research grew from roots in experimental psychology and the experimental analysis of behavior to address drug effects on behavior and how the contexts in which drugs are used can determine their effects.
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My aim here is to step back from the rhetoric and examine more closely why people interested in the mind and individual judgment (especially scholars in my discipline, experimental psychology) should or should not rethink their assumptions about the nature of meaning.
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In her graduate program, she focused on experimental psychology to understand how psychological processes can be studied scientifically.
Synonyms
The study of how the mind works using experiments
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Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning is directly and transparently derivable from combining 'experimental' (related to experiments) with 'psychology' (the study of mind and behavior): it refers to psychology that uses experimental methods. This noun–modifier pattern is regular in English and mirrors equivalents in many languages, so a B1 learner who knows both words will readily infer the MWE meaning.
Etymology
The noun experimental psychology comes from the image of people doing careful tests to learn about the mind: experimental means 'doing tests' and psychology means 'the study of the mind'. So, experimental psychology is the part of psychology that finds out how people think and act by running experiments.