(psychology) the performance of some composite cognitive activity; an operation that affects mental contents; "the process of thinking…
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(psychiatry) a defense mechanism that uses reasoning to block out emotional stress and conflict
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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 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 in which memory of an unacceptable act or impulse is separated from the emotion originally associated…
Used in the same subject area: Cognitive psychology, Neurology, Medicine and healthcare, Psychology, Psychiatry.
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the relative prominence of a syllable or musical note (especially with regard to stress or pitch); "he put the stress on the wrong syl…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: psychiatry, defense, mechanism, uses, reasoning.a course of reasoning aimed at demonstrating a truth or falsehood; the methodical process of logical reasoning; "I can't follow your l…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: psychiatry, defense, mechanism, uses, reasoning.a course of reasoning aimed at demonstrating a truth or falsehood; the methodical process of logical reasoning; "I can't follow your l…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: psychiatry, defense, mechanism, uses, reasoning.be in conflict; "The two proposals conflict!"
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: psychiatry, defense, mechanism, uses, reasoning.The cultivation of an emotional state of mind; tendency to regard things in an emotional manner.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: psychiatry, defense, mechanism, uses, reasoning.Uttered with emphasis; made prominent and impressive by a peculiar stress of voice; laying stress; deserving of stress or emphasis; fo…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: psychiatry, defense, mechanism, uses, reasoning.the ratio of the breaking stress of a structure to the estimated maximum stress in ordinary use
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: psychiatry, defense, mechanism, uses, reasoning.The magnitude of a distributed force, as pressure, stress, weight, etc., per unit of surface, or of volume, as the case may be; as, th…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: psychiatry, defense, mechanism, uses, reasoning.recurrent abdominal pain and diarrhea (often alternating with periods of constipation); often associated with emotional stress
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: psychiatry, defense, mechanism, uses, reasoning.(used of vowels or syllables) pronounced with little or no stress; "a syllable that ends in a short vowel is a light syllable"; "a wea…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: psychiatry, defense, mechanism, uses, reasoning.a course of reasoning aimed at demonstrating a truth or falsehood; the methodical process of logical reasoning; "I can't follow your l…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: psychiatry, defense, mechanism, uses, reasoning.a course of reasoning aimed at demonstrating a truth or falsehood; the methodical process of logical reasoning; "I can't follow your l…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: psychiatry, defense, mechanism, uses, reasoning.
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