psychograph
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
27
Scrabble Score
11
Letters
3
Syllables
9
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
One of various graphical representations of a cognitive or psychological profile.
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A photographic image having a supposed supernatural or spiritual origin.
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Any of various devices used for automatic writing.
noun
noun
A piece of prose that describes hallucinations or phantoms.
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A photograph, film, or other recorded image that evokes the feeling of a person, time, or place.
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A device that measures a person's head according to phrenological principles, invented by Henry C. Lavery in the first half of the 20th century.
Example Sentences
- "The chaplains' psychograph is notable because of the extreme variation in scores; thus on test 4 (opposites) the chaplains achieve a median score which is much higher than that of any other group, whereas on tests 2 (arithmetic) and 6 (number series completion) they fall considerably below the median for all officers."
- "Psychographs could be used to describe the occupation as well as the person."
- "The psychograph also helps us spot the ways that virtually all of us are unevenly developed, and this helps prevent us from thinking that just because we are terrific in one area we must be terrrific in all the others."
- "Depending on how psychologically minded a given client is, therapists can explain the idea of developmental levels and lines to that client and ask her to sketch a psychograph depicting, for example, her cognitive, moral, interpersonal, affective, and spiritual lines of development."
- "From the purely psychological approach, the psychograph had been developed both in France as early as 1896, by Toulouse, and in Germany, a few years later, by Stern, as an abbreviated description of a given individual's personality."
- "In this article he deals with the still more remarkable impressions, known as "psychographs," which they have obtained on photographic plates without exposing them at all, and which Mr. Lethem claims could only be produced by "spirit" agency."