Psychology vs Psychometry - What's the difference?
psychology | psychometry |
(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:
* 1969 , Victor Alba, The Latin Americans , page 42:
The paranormal ability to discover information about an object's past, and especially about its past owners, merely by handling it.
(psychology) The use of psychological tests to measure intelligence, abilities, attitudes, and personality traits.
* 1960 , Indian Journal of Psychology XXXV–XXXVII,
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As nouns the difference between psychology and psychometry
is that psychology is (uncountable) the study of the human mind while psychometry is the paranormal ability to discover information about an object's past, and especially about its past owners, merely by handling it.psychology
English
(wikipedia psychology)Noun
- For generations, historians have conjectured everything from a warped psychology to a deformed body as accounting for Elizabeth's preferred spinsterhood...
- In the United States, the psychology of a laborer, a farmer, a businessman does not differ in any important respect.
Derived terms
* * *psychometry
English
Noun
(psychometries)page 25:
- In psychometry and paedometry his original contributions will be little unless he had equipped himself well with the subjects like mathematics and statistics.
page 27:
- Again, barring in a few universities psychometry and physiological psychology are not regarded as compulsory papers.