psychological theory
collocation in Englishmeaningsofpsychologicalandtheory
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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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theory
noun[C or U]
uk/ˈθɪə.ri/us/ˈθɪr.i/
a formal statement of the rules on which a subject of study is based or of ideas that are suggested to explain a fact or event or, more generally, an opinion ...
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(Definition ofpsychologicalandtheoryfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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Thus,psychologicaltheoryis more than dichotomous.
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This is consistent withpsychologicaltheory.
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Thepsychologicaltheoryis based on the philosophical premises.
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The value of apsychologicaltheoryrests in its ability to describe and predict behavior.
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What else is needed, now that thispsychologicaltheoryhas been launched from a dynamical foundation?
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If it turned out that any psychological facts to which apsychologicaltheoryrefers are typeidentical with physical facts, for example, then that psychological theory is not physics-free.
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Was thepsychologicaltheorythey espoused consonant with our increasing knowledge of language and language interiorization processes?
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The authors are right about the risks of proposing apsychologicaltheorybased on a single evaluation criterion.
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The promoters of the audiolingual method, however, asserted that their procedures were based on modernpsychologicaltheory.
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Any socialpsychologicaltheoryof psychopathology should be extendible to all cultures in which the pathological behavior is found.
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As far as the content is concerned, thepsychologicaltheoryof knowledge has in fact changed minimally.
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It should not, however, be too readily assumed that empirical data are necessarily more helpful than clinical data in the construction of apsychologicaltheory.
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Although we are in agreement with both extensions, we do not think that these extensions make a very novel contribution to existing socialpsychologicaltheory.
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A further step would be to examine whether this is ultimately compatible with thepsychologicaltheoryit is supposedly based on.
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Some socialpsychologicaltheorywould suggest that even minimal differences in individuals can be the basis for group identity and conflict.
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Advances in neurobiology might well illuminate this debate but, as we have cautioned, the mapping between neurobiological data andpsychologicaltheoryis not straightforward.
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So any inferences from brain to mind are necessarily provisional because they depend on the existing (and often contested) state ofpsychologicaltheory.
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It is a comprehensive, logical, andpsychologicaltheoryof social interaction, thereby, to some degree, using the language (and logic) of game theory.
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The general aim is to summarise relevant mainstreampsychologicaltheoryand apply it to ageism, with indications of the similarities and differences between the general and the specific.
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This is not just important in supporting socialpsychologicaltheory, but in considering issues of race relations and how they might be addressed in thoughtful and sensible ways.
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Too many flowcharts of mental processes inpsychologicaltheorystar a little executive "controller" at the top, a hopelessly incorrigible homunculus that makes the whole flowchart a joke.
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In addition, by liberating semantics from its syntactic shackles, the parallel architecture makes it possible to develop a fullypsychologicaltheoryof meaning and its relation to perception.
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One doesn't need "essences" or "theories" as part of ourpsychologicaltheory, then - you can replace them with dimensions, and retain a similarity-space analysis of concepts.
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