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

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 Weir, James

We have explained many secondary processes, but the primary ones are still unsolved.

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)

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