physiological psychology

American  

noun

1. the branch of psychology concerned with the relationship between the physical functioning of an organism and its behavior.

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physiological psychology British  

noun

1. the branch of psychology concerned with the study and correlation of physiological and psychological events

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Etymology

Origin of physiological psychology

First recorded in 1885–90

Example Sentences

Physiological psychology substitutes for Herbart's reals and his idea-forces a more materialistic sort of reality; perhaps functions of nerve-cells, or other analogous entities.

From Hegel's Philosophy of Mind by Hegel, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich

Physiological psychology teaches us how to separate the visible, the tangible, and the audible from bodies—a labor which is subsequently richly requited, as the division of the subjects of physics well shows.

From Popular scientific lectures by Mach, Ernst

Physiological psychology bears to physics in its widest sense a relation similar to that which chemistry bears to physics in its narrowest sense.

From Popular scientific lectures by Mach, Ernst

Physiological psychology has its own field of investigation, but it is never safe when it parts company with sound philosophy.

From What and Where is God? A Human Answer to the Deep Religious Cry of the Modern Soul by Swain, Richard la Rue