(psychology) the performance of some composite cognitive activity; an operation that affects mental contents; "the process of thinking…
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(psychology) the performance of some composite cognitive activity; an operation that affects mental contents; "the process of thinking…
Used in the same subject area: Cognitive psychology, Neurology, Medicine and healthcare, Psychology.The act or principle of compensating.
Used in the same subject area: Cognitive psychology, Neurology, Medicine and healthcare, Psychology, Psychiatry.Familiar talk; easy, unrestrained, unceremonious conversation.
Used in the same subject area: Cognitive psychology, Medicine and healthcare, Psychology, Psychiatry.The act of turning or changing from one state or condition to another, or the state of being changed; transmutation; change.
Used in the same subject area: Cognitive psychology, Neurology, Medicine and healthcare, Psychology, Psychiatry.See Defense.
Used in the same subject area: Cognitive psychology, Neurology, Medicine and healthcare, Psychology, Psychiatry.(psychiatry) an unconscious process that tries to reduce the anxiety associated with instinctive desires
Used in the same subject area: Cognitive psychology, Neurology, Medicine and healthcare, Psychology, Psychiatry.(psychiatry) an unconscious process that tries to reduce the anxiety associated with instinctive desires
Used in the same subject area: Cognitive psychology, Neurology, Medicine and healthcare, Psychology, Psychiatry.Alt. of Defence
Used in the same subject area: Cognitive psychology, Neurology, Medicine and healthcare, Psychology, Psychiatry.(psychiatry) an unconscious process that tries to reduce the anxiety associated with instinctive desires
Used in the same subject area: Cognitive psychology, Neurology, Medicine and healthcare, Psychology, Psychiatry.(psychiatry) an unconscious process that tries to reduce the anxiety associated with instinctive desires
Used in the same subject area: Cognitive psychology, Neurology, Medicine and healthcare, Psychology, Psychiatry.A tendency to blame victims for their misfortune, so that one feels less likely to be victimized in a similar way.; "Previous research…
Used in the same subject area: Cognitive psychology, Neurology, Medicine and healthcare, Psychology, Psychiatry.The act of gainsaying, refusing, or disowning; negation; -- the contrary of affirmation.
Used in the same subject area: Cognitive psychology, Neurology, Medicine and healthcare, Psychology, Psychiatry.The act of displacing, or the state of being displaced; a putting out of place.
Used in the same subject area: Cognitive psychology, Neurology, Medicine and healthcare, Psychology, Psychiatry.The act or process of idealizing.
Used in the same subject area: Cognitive psychology, Neurology, Medicine and healthcare, Psychology, Psychiatry.(psychiatry) a defense mechanism that uses reasoning to block out emotional stress and conflict
Used in the same subject area: Cognitive psychology, Neurology, Medicine and healthcare, Psychology, Psychiatry.(psychiatry) a defense mechanism that uses reasoning to block out emotional stress and conflict
Used in the same subject area: Cognitive psychology, Neurology, Medicine and healthcare, Psychology, Psychiatry.The act of isolating, or the state of being isolated; insulation; separation; loneliness.
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Partial or total absence of the skull.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: exists, idea.Confirmative; ratifying; as, an act affirmative of common law.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: exists, idea.The claim considered when evidence does not support the null hypothesis.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: exists, idea.To reduce to nothing or nonexistence; to destroy the existence of; to cause to cease to be.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: exists, idea.The act of reducing to nothing, or nonexistence; or the act of destroying the form or combination of parts under which a thing exists,…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: exists, idea.Crude tartar; an acidulous salt from which cream of tartar is prepared. It exists in the juice of grapes, and is deposited from wines…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: exists, idea.a system of recording all of a country's economic transactions with the rest of the world over a period of one year; "a favorable bala…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: exists, idea.a system of recording all of a country's economic transactions with the rest of the world over a period of one year; "a favorable bala…
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Its definition shares important concepts with this word: exists, idea.The first day of May (Old Style).
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: exists, idea.Happening, or taking place, once in two years; as, a biennial election.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: exists, idea.A nonphosphorized, nitrogenous substance, obtained from brain and nerve tissue by extraction with boiling alcohol. It is uncertain whe…
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