(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.(psychiatry) a defense mechanism that conceals your undesirable shortcomings by exaggerating desirable behaviors
Used in the same subject area: Cognitive psychology, Neurology, Medicine and healthcare, Psychology, Psychiatry.(psychiatry) a plausible but imagined memory that fills in gaps in what is remembered
Used in the same subject area: Cognitive psychology, Medicine and healthcare, Psychology, Psychiatry.(psychiatry) a defense mechanism represses emotional conflicts which are then converted into physical symptoms that have no organic ba…
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.(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.(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.(psychiatry) a defense mechanism that denies painful thoughts
Used in the same subject area: Cognitive psychology, Neurology, Medicine and healthcare, Psychology, Psychiatry.(psychiatry) a defense mechanism that transfers affect or reaction from the original object to some more acceptable one
Used in the same subject area: Cognitive psychology, Neurology, Medicine and healthcare, Psychology, Psychiatry.(psychiatry) a defense mechanism that splits something you are ambivalent about into two representations — one good and one bad
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.(psychiatry) a defense mechanism in which memory of an unacceptable act or impulse is separated from the emotion originally associated…
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The lowest group of Vertebrata, including the amphioxus, in which no skull exists.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: exists, idea.That affirms; asserting that the fact is so; declaratory of what exists; answering "yes" to a question; -- opposed to negative; as, an…
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 destroy the form or peculiar distinctive properties of, so that the specific thing no longer exists; as, to annihilate a forest by…
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…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: exists, idea.That which exists in any form, whether it be material or spiritual, actual or ideal; living existence, as distinguished from a thing w…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: exists, idea.A festival of the heathen Celts on the first day of May, in the observance of which great bonfires were kindled. It still exists in a…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: exists, idea.A plant which exists or lasts for two years.
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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