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

The energy acting in these secondary processes is, in every case, derived, either directly or indirectly, from the energy of rotation or axial energy of the earth.

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

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

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