Biologization
Origin
en + -biologize + ation
Full definition of biologization
Noun
biologization
(plural biologizations)- assimilation into a biological framework
- August 3, 2015, Scott O. Lilienfeld et al., Fifty psychological and psychiatric terms to avoid: a list of inaccurate, misleading, misused, ambiguous, and logically confused words and phrases, In this era of the increasing biologization of psychology and psychiatry ( Miller, 2010 ; Satel and Lilienfeld, 2013 ), authors may be tempted to assume that biological variables, such as parameters of brain functioning, “underlie†psychological phenomena.