(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.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 of distributing or dispensing; the act of dividing or apportioning among several or many; apportionment; as, the distribution…
Used in the same subject area: Cognitive psychology, Neurology, Medicine and healthcare, Mathematics, Psychology.A pattern whose structure repeats at different scales.
Used in the same subject area: Cognitive psychology, Neurology, Medicine and healthcare, Mathematics, Psychology.something that exists only as an idea
Used in the same subject area: Cognitive psychology, Neurology, Medicine and healthcare, Psychology, Psychiatry.The act or process of idealizing.
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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.Love; universal benevolence; good will.
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 be in a state of natural ebullition; to bubble and hiss, as fermenting liquors, or any fluid, when some part escapes in a gaseous f…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: psychiatry, defense, mechanism, true, motivation.(Literally, called equally one thing or the other; hence:) Having two significations equally applicable; capable of double interpretat…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: psychiatry, defense, mechanism, true, motivation.
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