psychograph

American  

[sahy-kuh-graf, -grahf] / ˈsaɪ kəˌgræf, -ˌgrɑf /

noun

1. Psychology. a graph indicating the relative strength of the personality traits of an individual.

2. a psychologically oriented biography.

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Other Word Forms

• psychographic adjective
• psychographically adverb

Etymology

Origin of psychograph

First recorded in 1880–85; psycho- + -graph

Example Sentences

This is the method of the "psychograph," as it is commonly called.

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Nevertheless the individual psychograph constitutes a suggestive method of research for the vocational psychology of the future.

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Directed toward these more familiar and more easily accessible occupations, the individual psychograph constitutes one of the most interesting forms of vocational psychology.

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Closely related to it, though sufficiently distinct in aim and method to merit separate presentation, is the method of the vocational psychograph, in which the work, rather than the worker, is made the object of analysis.

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This may be called the "vocational psychograph" as contrasted with the psychograph of the individual of genius.

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