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psychotechnical

Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Relating to psychology considered in its applications as a guide to practice; or, relating to an art which is based upon psychology as its science.

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Examples

  • Or psychotechnical administrator, as I believe they call 'em now.

    The Long Way Home Anderson, Poul, 1926- 1955

  • Ultimately all the traps and nets with which the enemies of the crop are caught are schemes for which psychotechnical calculations are decisive.

    Psychology and Social Sanity Hugo M��nsterberg 1889

  • There are the large groups of psychotechnical problems where the effort refers to the application of psychology in securing the best conditions for labor and industry and commerce.

    Psychotherapy Hugo M��nsterberg 1889

  • The Vocational Guidance Bureau (since 1989 the Hadassah Career Counseling Institute, HCCI) operated during the state’s early years to help Jerusalem elementary school graduates find a vocational direction and to spread the idea of vocational guidance via the first psychotechnical course of its kind in Israel, which opened in 1952.

    Hadassah: Yishuv to the Present Day. 2009

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