psychograph

[ sahy-kuh-graf, -grahf ]

noun

1. Psychology. a graph indicating the relative strength of the personality traits of an individual.
2. a psychologically oriented biography.

Other Words From

• psy·cho·graph·ic [sahy-k, uh, -, graf, -ik], adjective
• psycho·graphi·cal·ly adverb

Word History and Origins

Origin of psychograph¹

First recorded in 1880–85; psycho- + -graph

Example Sentences

As we have already seen in detail, the methods of the individual and the vocational psychograph are still in the stage of empirical procedure.

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Nevertheless the individual psychograph constitutes a suggestive method of research for the vocational psychology of the future.

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Substitutes for the vocational psychograph, in the way of partial and suggestive tests, have been proposed in four different forms.

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The interest in unusual men has led to the psychograph or psychological analysis of the qualities of great men, as an individual study.

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This is the method of the "psychograph," as it is commonly called.

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