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EXPERIMENTAL PSYCHOLOGY

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Meaning:

The branch of psychology that uses experimental methods to study psychological issues

Synonyms:

experimental psychology; psychonomics

Classified under:

Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents

Hypernyms ("experimental psychology" is a kind of...):

psychological science; psychology (the science of mental life)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "experimental psychology"):

psychophysics (the branch of psychology concerned with quantitative relations between physical stimuli and their psychological effects)

behaviorism; behavioristic psychology; behaviourism; behaviouristic psychology (an approach to psychology that emphasizes observable measurable behavior)

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