experimental psychologist
collocation in Englishmeaningsofexperimentalandpsychologist
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experimental
adjective
uk/ɪkˌsper.ɪˈmen.təl/us/ɪkˌsper.əˈmen.t̬əl/
using new methods, ideas, substances, etc. that have not been tried before, usually in order to find out what effect ...
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psychologist
noun[C]
uk/saɪˈkɒl.ə.dʒɪst/us/saɪˈkɑː.lə.dʒɪst/
someone who studies the human mind and human emotions and behaviour, and how different situations have an effect ...
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(Definition ofexperimentalandpsychologistfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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To anexperimentalpsychologist, one person doing something once to see what happens is hardly science (just as digging tiny ditches is hardly construction work).
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Noexperimentalpsychologistwas informed of the case until after the corneal grafting took place.
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The lawyer and the judge and the juryman are sure that they do not need theexperimentalpsychologist...
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Mller was primarily anexperimentalpsychologist, often working in the laboratory and performing rigorous experimental investigations.
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As anexperimentalpsychologistand helped design the so-called minimal group experiments which were foundational to the social identity approach.
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His major research finding as anexperimentalpsychologistis called matching law the tendency of animals to allocate their choices in direct proportion to the rewards they provide.
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Experimental psychologists use it without a second thought, catalogues and handbooks rubricate it fairly consistently, and historians succeed in pinpointing its legitimizing powers.
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The third type, and the most common among cognitive experimental psychologists, addresses the relationships among the concepts or languages within an individual bilingual mind.
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Despite this common background, experimental psychologists and economists do not typically emphasize the same questions when they analyze their studies.
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The debate about the fundamental nature of language has involved mostly theoretical linguists and experimental psychologists.
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In contrast, experimental psychologists never similarly had to battle for respect within their own discipline.
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Notwithstanding some minor reservations, the authors express a strong preference for economists' practices on all four features and advise experimental psychologists to adopt the conventional practices of experimental economics.
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But throughout the course of their argument, they also suggest that experimental psychologists need to do as experimental economists have done: that is, narrow the variations in their procedures.
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This is closer to an experimental psychologist's idea of "good science," that is, there was a lot of repetition and careful study of cause and effect.
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There are some experimental psychologists, who have no medical training, who are conducting all kinds of experiments to an ever-increasing extent.
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That is, experimental psychologists long ago rejected any idea that people sense a proximal stimulus such as the retinal image.
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There are many other experimental psychologists around the world exploring readers' responses, conducting many detailed experiments.
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