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# psychologist

«psychologist» in Mova's school dictionary: **a person who studies the mind and how people think, feel…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 2 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun (a psychologist, psychologists)

### meaning for a pupil

1) A psychologist is a person who studies the mind and how people think, feel and behave. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/psychologist/#m1)

2) A psychologist is also a trained person who helps people with worries, feelings or learning difficulties. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/psychologist/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

In everyday life a school or educational psychologist may help pupils who find learning or feelings hard. In science it is a person who studies behaviour with experiments. Phrases: «child psychologist», «educational psychologist», «sports psychologist».

### examples

- The school psychologist helps children who are worried. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/psychologist/#x1)
- A psychologist studies how memory works. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/psychologist/#x2)
- My cousin wants to be a psychologist. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/psychologist/#x3)
- The sports psychologist helps players stay calm. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/psychologist/#x4)
- The psychologist asked me some questions. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/psychologist/#x5)
- Psychologists did tests on how babies learn. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/psychologist/#x6)
- A child psychologist listened to her feelings. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/psychologist/#x7)
- Talking to a psychologist can help. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/psychologist/#x8)

### note

The «p» is silent: sy-KOL-o-jist. Not the same as a psychiatrist (a medical doctor who can prescribe medicine). Subject: psychology.

### In the corpora

- [The "10,000 hours" idea was made famous by the writer Malcolm Gladwell, based on research by the psychologist Anders Ericsson.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/arts/3-practising-when-you-would-rather-not/9/)
- [Owning up is scary for a minute and freeing afterwards; psychologists find children who own up are usually punished less and trusted more.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/89-owning-up-the-broken-vase-and-the-lost-library-book/2/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «psychologist» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/psychologist/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.