secondary processes

British  

plural noun

1. psychoanal the logical conscious type of mental functioning, guided by external reality Compare primary processes

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Example Sentences

Learning, humour; these more advanced capabilities are known as secondary processes, but the primary processes are built in by evolution as part of the instincts for living in the basement of the brain.

From The Guardian • Nov. 17, 2015

And rather than the primary processes, which are automatic, these secondary processes require more thinking.

From Salon • Sep. 29, 2012

These two planetary secondary processes, of heating and evaporation, are of vital importance to the working of the atmospheric machine.

From The Energy System of Matter A Deduction from Terrestrial Energy Phenomena by Weir, James

Is the difference between what we have called the secondary processes and the primary ones only one of degree?

From The Story of the Living Machine A Review of the Conclusions of Modern Biology in Regard to the Mechanism Which Controls the Phenomena of Living Activity by Conn, H. W. (Herbert William)

The terminology by which these secondary processes are described is not altogether satisfactory, and logicians are not agreed as to the application of the terms.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 7, Slice 3 "Convention" to "Copyright" by Various