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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secondary processes

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

If secondary processes have developed, or the object be small and in a bronchus too small to admit the tube-mouth, considerable experience may be necessary to discover it.

From Bronchoscopy and Esophagoscopy A Manual of Peroral Endoscopy and Laryngeal Surgery by Jackson, Chevalier

Standard treatment of pollution at its source consists of the primary and secondary processes we have glanced at, sometimes adjusted to specific industrial wastes.

From The Nation's River A report on the Potomac from the U.S. Department of the Interior by United States. Dept. of the Interior.

All the appendages are pediform and bi-ramose; all have a prominent gnathobase, and in all the exopodite carries a comb-like series of secondary processes.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Slice 3 "Apollodorus" to "Aral" by Various