Noun

(uncountable) The study of the human mind.

(uncountable) The study of human behavior.

(uncountable) The study of animal behavior.

(countable) The mental, emotional, and behavioral characteristics pertaining to a specified person, group, or activity.

* 1970 , Mary M. Luke, A Crown for Elizabeth , page 8:

For generations, historians have conjectured everything from a warped psychology to a deformed body as accounting for Elizabeth's preferred spinsterhood...

* 1969 , Victor Alba, The Latin Americans , page 42:

In the United States, the psychology of a laborer, a farmer, a businessman does not differ in any important respect.

Noun

(wikipedia consciousness)

The state of being conscious or aware; awareness.

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* {{quote-magazine, date=2013-08-03, volume=408, issue=8847, magazine=(The Economist)

, title= The machine of a new soul , passage=Yet this is the level of organisation that does the actual thinking—and is, presumably, the seat of consciousness .}}