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# psychology

«psychology» in Mova's school dictionary: **the science that studies the mind, feelings and how…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 1 sentence of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun (psychology — uncountable)

### meaning for a pupil

1) Psychology is the science that studies the mind, feelings and how people (and animals) think and behave. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/psychology/#m1)

2) Someone's psychology is the way they think and feel. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/psychology/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

In lessons on feelings and the body, psychology explains learning, memory and emotions; in everyday life a psychologist helps people. Phrases: study psychology, child psychology, the psychology of colour.

### examples

- My aunt studied psychology at university. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/psychology/#x1)
- Psychology helps us understand why people feel sad. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/psychology/#x2)
- Child psychology is about how children think. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/psychology/#x3)
- Shops use psychology to make you buy more. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/psychology/#x4)
- The coach understood the team's psychology. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/psychology/#x5)
- We learned some psychology about memory. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/psychology/#x6)

### note

Uncountable. Say sy-KOL-uh-jee; the p is silent. A psychologist studies the mind; a psychiatrist is a medical doctor for mental illness.

### In the corpora

- [Words with silent first letters are found under their real spelling: psychology under ps, knee under kn.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/english/15-how-to-learn-spellings-that-stick/19/)

### Trees and pragmatics

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