psychological explanation
collocation in Englishmeaningsofpsychologicalandexplanation
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psychological
adjective
uk/ˌsaɪ.kəlˈɒdʒ.ɪ.kəl/us/ˌsaɪ.kəˈlɑː.dʒɪ.kəl/
relating to the human mind ...
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explanation
noun[C or U]
uk/ˌek.spləˈneɪ.ʃən/us/ˌek.spləˈneɪ.ʃən/
the details or reasons that someone gives to make something clear or easy ...
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(Definition ofpsychologicalandexplanationfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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It is not clear how dynamical systems serve as apsychologicalexplanationas opposed to a complex description of behavior.
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If the fundamental methodological commitments of mainstream economics include ' 'methodological individualism' ', what is it that ultimately distinguishes social explanation from purelypsychologicalexplanation, writ large?
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But it is simply not true that thepsychologicalexplanationof concept acquisition is exhausted by analysis of its phenomenology.
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Psychologicalexplanationis susceptible to a peculiar sort of mis-direction.
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Freud was not the only person to offer apsychologicalexplanationof religion.
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As has already been indicated, this was most conspicuously the case where writers struggled to find a language with which to hold together physiological andpsychologicalexplanation.
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Rachlin favors apsychologicalexplanationin each case because self-control and altruism can change over the course of a life in ways we would not expect of behaviors genetically programmed.
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There is apsychologicalexplanationfor this inertia.
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There is apsychologicalexplanationfor this.
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Her work focuses on the nature ofpsychologicalexplanation, and on the relationship between folk explanation and scientific explanation.
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Up to the beginning of 1970s, this theory took a back seat to thepsychologicalexplanationof crime.
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This has nothing to do with moral weakness, selling out, or any otherpsychologicalexplanation.
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The illness was called "shell shock," and apsychologicalexplanationwas eventually favoured.
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One that reduces everything to subjectivepsychologicalexplanationand wooly quasi-mystical assertions.
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Whatever the psychological explanations that underline each approach, our view is that the final choice is normative.
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In summary, a variety of biological, sociological, and psychological explanations have been proposed, but their empirical underpinnings have remained slim.
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Leal further points out that in magic realism, key events have no logical orpsychologicalexplanation.
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Evolutionary psychological explanations must impress two different audiences with different objectives.
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However, many patients are not open to psychological explanations of their illness.
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After decades of almost metaphysical psychological explanations of behaviour, it is refreshing to read attempts to ground behaviour disorders on biological speculations.
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