(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 by which your true motivation is concealed by explaining your actions and feelings in a way that is not threatening
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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.(statistics) an arrangement of values of a variable showing their observed or theoretical frequency of occurrence
Used in the same subject area: Cognitive psychology, Neurology, Medicine and healthcare, Mathematics, Psychology.(mathematics) a geometric pattern that is repeated at every scale and so cannot be represented by classical geometry
Used in the same subject area: Cognitive psychology, Neurology, Medicine and healthcare, Mathematics, Psychology.(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.
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(psychiatry) the display of previously inhibited emotions (often in actions rather than words); considered to be healthy and therapeut…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: psychiatry, defense, mechanism, true, motivation.A lying in a wood, concealed, for the purpose of attacking an enemy by surprise. Hence: A lying in wait, and concealed in any situatio…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: psychiatry, defense, mechanism, true, motivation.an almond-shaped neural structure in the anterior part of the temporal lobe of the cerebrum; intimately connected with the hypothalamu…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: psychiatry, defense, mechanism, true, motivation.an almond-shaped neural structure in the anterior part of the temporal lobe of the cerebrum; intimately connected with the hypothalamu…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: psychiatry, defense, mechanism, true, motivation.To speak in defense against; to reply to in defense; as, to answer a charge; to answer an accusation.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: psychiatry, defense, mechanism, true, motivation.One who makes an apology; one who speaks or writes in defense of a faith, a cause, or an institution; especially, one who argues in de…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: psychiatry, defense, mechanism, true, motivation.That phase of the doctrine of utilitarianism taught by Jeremy Bentham; the doctrine that the morality of actions is estimated and dete…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: psychiatry, defense, mechanism, true, motivation.The steps that explain how a cause leads to an effect.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: psychiatry, defense, mechanism, true, motivation.Liberality in judging of men and their actions; a disposition which inclines men to put the best construction on the words and actions…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: psychiatry, defense, mechanism, true, motivation.an almond-shaped neural structure in the anterior part of the temporal lobe of the cerebrum; intimately connected with the hypothalamu…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: psychiatry, defense, mechanism, true, motivation.To exhibit, in lively natural expression, feelings that can not be repressed or concealed; as, to effervesce with joy or merriment.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: psychiatry, defense, mechanism, true, motivation.Capable of being ascribed to different motives, or of signifying opposite feelings, purposes, or characters; deserving to be suspected…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: psychiatry, defense, mechanism, true, motivation.
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