psychology

In a sentence

Six example sentences with psychology, each labelled with its topic.

• He took a psychology course before coaching, and now he studies how a team's attention collapses in the final minutes.

  Basketball

• The screenwriter studied psychology for a year so the detective's memory lapses would follow real patterns rather than plot convenience.

  Movies

• Interface designers borrow from psychology, testing how long a person can hold six unfamiliar options in mind at once.

  Technology

• Economists now borrow from psychology, since people rarely behave like the perfectly rational agents in the old models.

  Economics

• The defence called an expert in psychology to explain why eyewitness memory can be confident and still wrong.

  Law

• William James taught psychology and philosophy together, and his textbook on the mind still argues like a philosopher.

  Philosophy

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More Academic words

• abnormally
• accumulated
• consuming
• variability
• offset
• differentiation
• constituted
• reluctant
• involvement
• exporting
• inhibition
• philosophical