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PSYCHOPHYSICIST
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A psychologist trained in psychophysics
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("psychophysicist" is a kind of...):
psychologist (a scientist trained in psychology)
Instance hyponyms:
S. Smith Stevens; Smitty Stevens; Stanley Smith Stevens; Stevens (United States psychologist and psychophysicist who proposed Stevens' power law to replace Fechner's law (1906-1973))
Derivation:
psychophysics (the branch of psychology concerned with quantitative relations between physical stimuli and their psychological effects)