psychotechnics

American  

[sahy-koh-tek-niks] / ˌsaɪ koʊˈtɛk nɪks /

noun

(used with a singular verb)

1. the use of psychological techniques for controlling and modifying human behavior, especially for practical ends.

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Etymology

Origin of psychotechnics

1925–30; psycho- + technics

Example Sentences

Psychotechnics does not stand in the service of a party, but exclusively in the service of civilization.

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Many patient investigations, with every independent group of apparatus and machines, may be necessary before psychotechnics will be able to supply industry with reliable advice for teaching and learning.

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For instance, the sportsman who climbs a glacier also performs such a fatiguing activity which demands the greatest effort of attention and will; and yet the psychotechnics of sport do not belong in economic psychology, because this mountain climbing does not satisfy economic desires.

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The task of psychotechnics is accordingly to determine by exact psychological experiments how this mental effect, the satisfaction of economic desires, can be secured in the quickest, in the easiest, in the safest, in the most enduring, and in the most satisfactory way.

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They are accordingly inaccessible to the point of view of experimental psychology, and nothing can be expected from such interpretative discussions of the economists for the psychotechnics at which the psychologist is aiming.

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