dynamic psychology

American  

noun

1. any approach to psychology that emphasizes drives and motives as determinants of behavior.

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dynamic psychology British  

noun

1. psychol any system of psychology that emphasizes the interaction between different motives, emotions, and drives

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Example Sentences

This book presents the applications of this newer dynamic psychology to the teaching of arithmetic.

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The dynamic psychology of to-day describes the present civilization as a repressive environment.

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Easier than these and very stimulating are Dewey, Reconstruction in Philosophy, and Woodworth, Dynamic Psychology.

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In our time, the demand for a dynamic psychology of process and becoming, psychology with an energy in it, has split them into two schools—the emphasizers of instinct and the subconscious, the McDougallians, and the pleaders for sex and the unconscious, the Freudians.

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Nevertheless, dynamic psychology demands a deeper meaning for such a motive.

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