PSYCHOLOGIST

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does psychologist mean? 

• PSYCHOLOGIST (noun)
  The noun PSYCHOLOGIST has 1 sense:

1. a scientist trained in psychology

  Familiarity information: PSYCHOLOGIST used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• PSYCHOLOGIST (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A scientist trained in psychology

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Hypernyms ("psychologist" is a kind of...):

scientist (a person with advanced knowledge of one or more sciences)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "psychologist"):

hypnotiser; hypnotist; hypnotizer; mesmerist; mesmerizer (a person who induces hypnosis)

parapsychologist (someone who studies the evidence for such psychological phenomena as psychokinesis and telepathy and clairvoyance)

psycholinguist (a person (usually a psychologist but sometimes a linguist) who studies the psychological basis of human language)

psychophysicist (a psychologist trained in psychophysics)

behaviorist; behaviourist (a psychologist who subscribes to behaviorism)

Instance hyponyms:

Robert M. Yerkes; Robert Mearns Yerkes; Yerkes (United States psychologist who studied the intelligence of primates (1876-1956))

John Broadus Watson; Watson (United States psychologist considered the founder of behavioristic psychology (1878-1958))

Edward Lee Thorndike; Thorndike (United States educational psychologist (1874-1949))

B. F. Skinner; Burrhus Frederic Skinner; Fred Skinner; Skinner (United States psychologist and a leading proponent of behaviorism (1904-1990))

Herb Simon; Herbert A. Simon; Herbert Alexander Simon; Simon (United States economist and psychologist who pioneered in the development of cognitive science (1916-2001))

Carl Rogers; Rogers (United States psychologist who developed client-centered therapy (1902-1987))

Jean Piaget; Piaget (Swiss psychologist remembered for his studies of cognitive development in children (1896-1980))

C. K. Ogden; Charles Kay Ogden; Ogden (English psychologist who collaborated with I. A. Richards in designing Basic English (1889-1957))

Leary; Tim Leary; Timothy Francis Leary; Timothy Leary (United States psychologist who experimented with psychoactive drugs (including LSD) and became a well-known advocate of their use (1920-1996))

Carl Gustav Jung; Carl Jung; Jung (Swiss psychologist (1875-1961))

James; William James (United States pragmatic philosopher and psychologist (1842-1910))

G. Stanley Hall; Granville Stanley Hall; Hall (United States child psychologist whose theories of child psychology strongly influenced educational psychology (1844-1924))

Arnold Gesell; Arnold Lucius Gesell; Gesell (United States psychologist noted for his work in child development (1880-1961))

Eysenck; H. J. Eysenck; Hans Eysenck; Hans Jurgen Eysenck (a British psychologist (born in Germany) noted for his theories of intelligence and personality and for his strong criticism of Freudian psychoanalysis)

Clark; Kenneth Bancroft Clark; Kenneth Clark (United States psychologist (born in Panama) whose research persuaded the Supreme Court that segregated schools were discriminatory (1914-2005))

Cattell; R. B. Cattell; Ray Cattell; Raymond B. Cattell; Raymond Bernard Cattell (American psychologist (born in England) who developed a broad theory of human behavior based on multivariate research (1905-1998))

Cattell; James McKeen Cattell (American psychologist and editor (1860-1944))

Burt; Cyril Burt; Cyril Lodowic Burt (English psychologist whose studies of twins were later said to have used fabricated data (1883-1971))

Alfred Binet; Binet (French psychologist remembered for his studies of the intellectual development of children (1857-1911))

Derivation:

psychology (the science of mental life)

 Context examples 

There is the condition which the modern French psychologists have called the idée fixe, which may be trifling in character, and accompanied by complete sanity in every other way.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

A psychologist who diagnoses and treats behavioral and other problems related to the way the brain works.

(Neuropsychologist, NCI Dictionary)

Psychologists and philosophers have long suggested that simulation is the mechanism by which humans understand each other’s minds.

(‘Mindreading’ neurons simulate decisions of social partners, University of Cambridge)

Their study really demonstrated that exposure to heat can have all these potential effects on people’s daily activities, said Daisy Chang, an organizational psychologist at Michigan State University in East Lansing.

(Hot Dorm Rooms Could Affect Students' Memory, Sadie Witkowski/VOA)

Neuroscientists and psychologists in the UK and Germany have identified mechanisms within the brain that they say help explain how this phenomenon occurs.

(Scientists identify possible source of the ‘Uncanny Valley’ in the brain, University of Cambridge)

A team led by Carnegie Mellon University psychologists wanted to better understand if specific aspects of the family environment following a separation better predicted children's long-term health outcomes.

(How Parents' Separation Impacts Adult Kids, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

U.S. studies have reported that lead exposure causes what psychologists call externalizing behavior problems, such as aggressiveness and bullying, which may lead to truancy and even jail time as children get older.

(Lead in kids’ blood linked with behavioral and emotional problems, NIH)