Psykologiset

Psykologiset is Finnish for "psychological" and is the plural nominative form of the adjective psykologinen. The word stems from psykologian, the field of psychology, and illustrates how Finnish adjectives inflect to agree with the noun they modify in number and case. In addition to psykologiset (plural nominative), related forms include psykologisia (partitive plural) and psykologisten (genitive plural), among other case forms.

In usage, psykologiset describes multiple aspects, factors, phenomena, or elements related to psychology. It is common in academic, clinical, educational, and media texts. Typical collocations include psykologiset tekijät (psychological factors), psykologiset vaikutukset (psychological effects), psykologiset tutkimukset (psychological studies), and psykologiset ilmiöt (psychological phenomena). The term is versatile and can modify nouns such as tekijät, vaikutukset, tutkimukset, ilmiöt, menettelytavat and more, depending on context.

Examples: "Tutkimus tarkastelee psykologisia vaikutuksia oppimiseen." Although this sentence uses the partitive form psykologisia, it shows how the concept is commonly expressed in context. A plural subject example is: "Psykologiset tekijät voivat vaikuttaa päätöksiin." Here psykologiset agrees with tekijät in number, while the predicate maintains a neutral, factual tone.

Psykologiset thus functions as a core descriptive term in Finnish for anything pertaining to mental processes, behavior, and related conditions. It is used primarily to convey an empirical or theoretical relation to psychology, rather than to describe non-psychological domains.