1650s, "study of the soul," from Modern Latin psychologia, probably coined mid-16c. in Germany by Melanchthon from Latinized form of Greek psykhe- "breath, spirit, soul" (see psyche) + logia "study of" (see -logy). Meaning "study of the mind" first recorded 1748, from Christian Wolff's "Psychologia empirica" (1732); main modern behavioral sense is from early 1890s.
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1. Abraham Maslow described psychology as "the science of being."
亚伯拉罕·马斯洛形容心理学是“存在的科学”。
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2. That may be two-bit psychology, but it's the only explanation I have.
那可能是不值一提的心理，但它却是我唯一的解释。
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3. Psychology began as a purely academic offshoot of natural philosophy.
心理学最初是自然哲学一个纯粹的学术分支。
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4. He obtained his doctorate in Social Psychology.
