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

In this fashion this series of secondary processes, involving both transformations and transmissions, is linked to the great atmospheric process.

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

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

There is no doubt that these are parapodial or limb appendages, carrying numerous imbricated secondary processes, and therefore comparable in essential structure to the leaf-bearing plates of the second mesosomatic somite of Limulus.

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

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