Psychograph

Quick meaning: Psychograph is a noun meaning One of various graphical representations of a cognitive or psychological profile.

Meaning

One of various graphical representations of a cognitive or psychological profile.

More Meanings

1. (parapsychology) A photographic image having a supposed supernatural or spiritual origin.
2. (parapsychology) Any of various devices used for automatic writing.
3. Any of various devices that purportedly read a person's thoughts.
4. psychobiography
5. A piece of prose that describes hallucinations or phantoms.
6. A photograph, film, or other recorded image that evokes the feeling of a person, time, or place.
7. To produce a psychograph (any sense).

Example Sentences

Psychographs could be used to describe the occupation as well as the person.

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.

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.

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.

Word Forms

• psychographs
• psychographing
• psychographed

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include psychogram, psychography, psychographer, autopsychography, psychometer, psychoscopy.

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