psychophysical
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- adjective
- /ˌsaɪkoʊˈfɪzɪkəl/
- Specialized
- Researchers are exploring how mental states influence psychophysical responses during pain perception.
- psychophysical tests
- psychophysical tasks
- psychophysical method
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Watch on YouTubeAnd so he postulates what he calls psychophysical laws.
- And so he postulates what he calls psychophysical laws.
- They're hunting in on the specific psychophysical cues that the woman is displaying, and context be damned.
Examples
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Workloads are increased every 3 minutes, depending on the heart rate response and psychophysical tolerance of the individual.
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A centering bias is commonly found in psychophysical magnitude estimation tasks, and Poulton illustrates this for judgments of loudness and sweetness.
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The mean scores on the psychophysical tests are presented as a function of the group in Figure 1.
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The use of children in behavioral psychophysical tasks raises interesting and complex questions.
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We assessed whether the three trained groups showed significant learning on the psychophysical tasks upon which they were trained in two ways.
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Assessments included clinical vision, outdoor functional, driving skills, and psychophysical tests.
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From an applied standpoint, a more detailed and comprehensive psychophysical profiling provides a better description of the performer's competitive experience.
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And you get this so-called psychophysical tuning curve which has this very nice tip to it and a long low frequency tail from the normal hearing person.
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To include psychological adjustment in our analyses would further our understanding of the unique role of hassles in causing psychophysical distress.
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The psychophysical functional-hedonic profile was thus completed, graphically portrayed, and displayed to the participant.
Academic text (2002)
Synonyms
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About how the mind and body affect each other
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How the mind and the body affect each other
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Relating to how the body and mind work together to affect behavior
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
The word psychophysical joins psycho- ('mind') and physical ('body'), and you can see psycho- in the familiar word psychology. So it means how the mind and body work together, for example how music can change your feelings and make your body move.