PSYCHOPHYSICIST

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

 Dictionary entry overview: What does psychophysicist mean? 

• PSYCHOPHYSICIST (noun)
  The noun PSYCHOPHYSICIST has 1 sense:

1. a psychologist trained in psychophysics

  Familiarity information: PSYCHOPHYSICIST used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• PSYCHOPHYSICIST (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A psychologist trained in psychophysics

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

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)