differential psychology

American  

noun

1. the branch of psychology dealing with the study of characteristic differences or variations of groups or individuals, especially through the use of analytic techniques and statistical methods.

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Example Sentences

Accordingly, our ethical training is too often ill-adapted to the developing child and adolescent since there are big lacunae in our differential psychology of the child and adolescent.

From Time Magazine Archive

Already the outlines of a differential anatomy, and a different physiology and a differential psychology, which will explain to us the unique in the constitution, the temperament and character of an individual, emerge.

From The Glands Regulating Personality by Berman, Louis, M.D.

In fact, nearly all tests, such as those used in studying differential psychology, are objective.

From Psychology A Study Of Mental Life by Woodworth, Robert S.

An experiment belongs under what we called "general psychology", and a test under "differential psychology", since the first outcome of a test is to show how the individual differs from others in a certain respect.

From Psychology A Study Of Mental Life by Woodworth, Robert S.

What is true of tests in differential psychology is true of the majority of experiments in general psychology: the performer is one person, the observer another, and the observation is objective in character.

From Psychology A Study Of Mental Life by Woodworth, Robert S.