(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 in which a person unconsciously develops attitudes and behavior that are the opposite of unacceptable repressed desires and impulses and serve to conceal them; "his strict morality is just a reaction formation to hide his sexual drive"
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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 that uses reasoning to block out emotional stress and conflict
Used in the same subject area: Cognitive psychology, Neurology, Medicine and healthcare, Psychology, Psychiatry.
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(psychiatry) a relatively permanent state of worry and nervousness occurring in a variety of mental disorders, usually accompanied by…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: psychiatry, defense, mechanism, unconsciously, develops.(psychiatry) a relatively permanent state of worry and nervousness occurring in a variety of mental disorders, usually accompanied by…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: psychiatry, defense, mechanism, unconsciously, develops.(psychoanalysis) a combination of emotions and impulses that have been rejected from awareness but still influence a person's behavior
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: psychiatry, defense, mechanism, unconsciously, develops.the attitudes and behavior that are characteristic of a particular social group or organization; "the developing drug culture"; "the r…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: psychiatry, defense, mechanism, unconsciously, develops.One who holds views resembling those of the Cynics; a snarler; a misanthrope; particularly, a person who believes that human conduct i…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: psychiatry, defense, mechanism, unconsciously, develops.To go through a process of natural evolution or growth, by successive changes from a less perfect to a more perfect or more highly org…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: psychiatry, defense, mechanism, unconsciously, develops.The gradual formation or production of organs or parts by a process of evolution or development, as when the seed develops the root an…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: psychiatry, defense, mechanism, unconsciously, develops.Upon or above the notochord; -- applied esp. to a vertebral column which develops upon the dorsal side of the notochord, as distinguis…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: psychiatry, defense, mechanism, unconsciously, develops.Exempt from subjection to the will of others; not under restraint, control, or compulsion; able to follow one's own impulses, desires,…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: psychiatry, defense, mechanism, unconsciously, develops.the attribution to yourself (consciously or unconsciously) of the characteristics of another person (or group of persons)
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: psychiatry, defense, mechanism, unconsciously, develops.(psychology) the conscious exclusion of unacceptable thoughts or desires
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: psychiatry, defense, mechanism, unconsciously, develops.Conveying motion; as; kinesodic substance; -- applied esp. to the spinal cord, because it is capable of conveying doth voluntary and r…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: psychiatry, defense, mechanism, unconsciously, develops.
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