psychograph
psychograph noun: one of various graphical representations of a cognitive or psychological profile.
Noun
psychograph (plural psychographs)
- One of various graphical representations of a cognitive or psychological profile.
- 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...1921, Bulletin of the National Research Council, page 482
- Psychographs could be used to describe the occupation as well as the person.2000, William E. Martin, Jr.; Jody L. Swartz-Kulstad, Person-Environment Psychology and Mental Health, →ISBN
- A photographic image having a supposed supernatural or spiritual origin.
- 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.1920, The London - Volume 44, page 443
- A remarkably clear psychograph — a thought-picture — was taken, or impressed, upon a plate in Hope's home without the plate being exposed to light.1938, True Mystic Science - Volumes 1-2, page 21
- Any of various devices used for automatic writing.
- A psychograph or a planchette is an apparatus used in spiritistic circles as an instrument for receiving written messages from the spirits of the dead.1971, Kurt E. Koch, Occult Practices and Beliefs, →ISBN, page 94
- ln a very well-known utterance, the novelist said of Effi Briest (with that curious pellucidity which has no grain of vanity in it): "Perhaps I have been so successful with it because l wrote the whole novel in a dream-like state, almost as if with a psychograph" - a psychograph being the pen-like...2001, Patricia Howe, Helen Chambers, Theodor Fontane and the European Context, →ISBN
- Any of various devices that purportedly read a person's thoughts.
- The psychograph was a novelty device featured in department stores and theater lobbies during the depression of the 1930s. The machine was used to measure the bumps on an individual's head and, according to the principles of the pseudoscience of phrenology, said to reveal the subject's personality...2005, Micki McGee, Self Help, Inc.: Makeover Culture in American Life, →ISBN
- A psychograph was a machine that was invented in the early 1900s to read people's thoughts. The first machine, introduced in 1931, contained almost 2,000 parts.2005, Robert Mandelberg, Easy Mind-Reading Tricks, →ISBN, page 81
- psychobiography
- Thus, any attempt to write a biography of McClellan inevitably "devolves into a psychograph."1998, Thomas J. Rowland, George B. McClellan and Civil War History, →ISBN
- Small wonder then, with this psychograph, that I project my personal history into its inevitable rationalization as cultural pluralism and value relativism, with a not too orthodox reaction to the American way of life.2001, Paul Allen Anderson, Deep River: Music and Memory in Harlem Renaissance Thought, →ISBN
- A piece of prose that describes hallucinations or phantoms.
- For Jolas, the modern poet's function involved a rediscovery of the vertical elements in creation, establishing through art a "Sense of the miraculous" through new forms such as the "anamyth" (a narrative of what he termed "preconscious relationships") and the "psychograph" (a hallucinatory prose...1987, Maria F. Bennett, Unfractioned Idiom: Hart Crane and Modernism, page 175
- In its final form it might be a phatasmagoric mixture of the poem in prose, the popular tale of folklore, the psychograph, the essay, the myth, the saga, the humoresque.1996, Ann Elizabeth Mayer, Artists in Dylan Thomas's Prose Works: Adam Naming and Aesop Fabling, →ISBN
- A photograph, film, or other recorded image that evokes the feeling of a person, time, or place.
- Those eyes seemed to be looking through peepholes forged in the intractable stuff of life itself, and they suggested light, light, light, projected out of the brain pan into a radiance such as one had on a perfect New England summer day. It was the painting beneath the Hopper picture — they came...1978, Charles Edward Eaton, The Case of the Missing Photographs, page 72
- However, the main focus of the film is not on creating a psychograph of an epoch and its people, but on how images can make a statement about the reality of an era.2004, Deutsches Filmmuseum Frankfurt am Main, Stanley Kubrick, page 31
- 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.
Verb
psychograph (third-person singular simple present psychographs, present participle psychographing, simple past and past participle psychographed)
- To produce a psychograph (any sense, except the phrenological one).
- That his personal level of instruction was very low is a well-known fact – and has the effect of enhancing the results of his psychographed poetry.2013, Vicente Dobroruka, Second Temple Pseudepigraphy, →ISBN
- See the message “Atitude de Amor” (Acts of Love, in a free translation) in psychic work “Seara Bendita”, by various spirits, psychographed by mediums Maria José Costa and Wanderley S. Oliveira.2016, Wanderley Oliveira, Inner restoration with no pain, →ISBN
psychograph meaning in Tamil
psychograph in Tamil
- ஆவிஎழுத்திற்குரிய கருவி
Examples of psychograph in a sentence
- Hamilton managed to obtain his first so-called psychograph or spirit photograph.2012, Fabrice Bourland, The Baker Street Phantom, →ISBN:
- Yet more surprising are the results if recourse be had to the table, for rapping, or to the psychograph, requiring, it is true, longer practice than the divinging rod.2012, Eduard von Hartmann, C. C. Massey, Spiritism, →ISBN, page 66:
- The psychograph was a novelty device featured in department stores and theater lobbies during the depression of the 1930s.2005, Micki McGee, Self Help, Inc.: Makeover Culture in American Life, →ISBN:
- And then there was the psychograph, which for just ten cents scanned a fairgoer's brain.2010, Jeff Brown, Mark Fenske, The Winner's Brain: 8 Strategies Great Minds Use to Achieve Success, →ISBN:
Forms of psychograph
| Noun | |
|---|---|
| plural | psychographs |
| Verb | |
| third-person singular present | psychographs |
| present participle | psychographing |
| past participle | psychographed |
| past | psychographed |
Origin of psychograph
From psycho- + -graph.
Questions about psychograph
- What does psychograph mean?
- Psychograph means one of various graphical representations of a cognitive or psychological profile.
- What is psychograph in Tamil?
- Psychograph in Tamil is ஆவிஎழுத்திற்குரிய கருவி. See Psychograph meaning in Tamil.
- How do you use psychograph in a sentence?
- Hamilton managed to obtain his first so-called psychograph or spirit photograph.
- What part of speech is psychograph?
- Psychograph can be a noun or a verb.
- What is the plural of psychograph?
- The plural of psychograph is psychographs.
Words near psychograph in the dictionary
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