comparative psychology

1. 1.

   the branch of psychology concerned with the behavior of animals

   Synonymsanimal psychology

   Broaderpsychology

Questions about comparative psychology

What does comparative psychology mean?

comparative psychology means "the branch of psychology concerned with the behavior of animals".

What is another word for comparative psychology?

Close synonyms include animal psychology. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is comparative psychology a common word?

comparative psychology is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.