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from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In psychology, the science which deals with the relations of the individual mind to its environment, more especially its social environment; in sociology, the science which deals with the psychological factors and laws implied in social organization and development: suggested, in both uses, by Baldwin and Giddings, in Baldwin, Dict. of Philos. and Psychol., II. 391.
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- noun psychology The branch of
psychology that aims to discover strictlaws that govern the working of themind , especially by means ofexperiment
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- noun the branch of psychology that uses experimental methods to study psychological issues
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