Related WordNet synsets for SUMO concept PsychologicalProcess
More specialized WordNet synsets
- confusion, mix-up, confounding
- a mistake that results from taking one thing to be another; "he changed his name in order to avoid confusion with the notorious outlaw"
- miscalculation, misreckoning, misestimation
- a mistake in calculating
- rally, rallying
- the feat of mustering strength for a renewed effort; "he singled to start a rally in the 9th inning"; "he feared the rallying of their troops for a counterattack"
- evangelism, proselytism, converting
- conversion resulting from the zeal of crusading advocacy of the gospel
- conversion, rebirth, spiritual rebirth
- a spiritual enlightenment causing a person to lead a new life
- rendition, rendering, interpretation
- the act of interpreting something as expressed in an artistic performance
- reinterpretation
- a new or different interpretation
- hypnotism, mesmerism, suggestion
- the act of inducing hypnosis
- distraction
- the act of distracting; drawing someone's attention away from something
- surprise, surprising, surprisal
- the act of surprising someone
- lipreading
- perceiving what a person is saying by observing the movements of the lips
- design, designing
- the act of working out the form of something (as by making a sketch or outline or plan); "he contributed to the design of a new instrument"
- neologism, neology, coinage
- the act of inventing a word or phrase
- invention
- the act of inventing
- devisal, contrivance
- the act of devising something
- conceptualization, conceptualisation, formulation, formularizing, formularising
- the act of formulation something
- stream of consciousness
- the continuous flow of ideas and feelings that constitute an individual's conscious experience
- process, unconscious process
- a mental process that you are not directly aware of; "the process of denial"
- basic cognitive process
- cognitive processes involved in obtaining and storing knowledge
- apperception
- the process whereby perceived qualities of an object are related to past experience
- representational process
- any basic cognitive process in which some entity comes to stand for or represent something else
- mind's eye
- the imaging of remembered or invented scenes; "I could see her clearly in my mind's eye"
- imagination, imaging, imagery, mental imagery
- the ability to form mental images of things or events; "he could still hear her in his imagination"
- vision
- a vivid mental image; "he had a vision of his own death"
- dream, dreaming
- a series of mental images and emotions occurring during sleep; "I had a dream about you last night"
- picturing, envisioning
- visual imagery
- dream, dreaming
- imaginative thoughts indulged in while awake; "he lives in a dream that has nothing to do with reality"
- nightmare
- a terrifying or deeply upsetting dream
- wet dream
- an erotic dream accompanied by ejaculation
- chimera, chimaera
- a grotesque product of the imagination
- reverie, revery, daydream, air castle, castle in the air, castle in Spain
- absent-minded dreaming while awake
- woolgathering
- an idle indulgence in fantasy
- evocation
- imaginative re-creation
- free association
- a thought process in which ideas (words or images) suggest other ideas in a sequence
- higher cognitive process
- cognitive processes that presuppose the availability of knowledge and put it to use
- thinking, thought, cerebration, intellection, mentation
- the process of thinking (especially thinking carefully); "thinking always made him frown"; "she paused for thought"
- construction, mental synthesis
- the creation of a construct; the process of combining ideas into a congruous object of thought
- retrovision
- a vision of events in the distant past
- theorization, theorisation
- the production or use of theories
- ideology
- imaginary or visionary theorization
- supposition, supposal
- the cognitive process of supposing
- cost-benefit analysis
- an analysis of the cost effectiveness of different alternatives in order to see whether the benefits outweigh the costs
- breakdown, partitioning
- an analysis into mutually exclusive categories
- elimination, reasoning by elimination
- analysis of a problem into alternative possibilities followed by the systematic elimination of unacceptable alternatives
- dissection
- a minute and critical analysis
- reductionism
- the analysis of complex things into simpler constituents
- resolution, resolving
- analysis into clear-cut components
- synthesis, synthetic thinking
- the combination of ideas into a complex whole
- cogitation, study
- attentive scrutiny and thought; "after much cogitation he rejected the offer"
- lucubration
- laborious cogitation
- ideation
- the process of forming and relating ideas
- excogitation
- thinking something out with care in order to achieve complete understanding of it
- inspiration
- a sudden intuition as part of solving a problem
- problem solving
- the thought processes involved in solving a problem
- understanding, apprehension, discernment, savvy
- the cognitive condition of someone who understands; "he has virtually no understanding of social cause and effect"
- comprehension
- an ability to understand the meaning or importance of something (or the knowledge acquired as a result); "how you can do that is beyond my comprehension"; "he was famous for his comprehension of American literature"
- incomprehension
- an inability to understand; "his incomprehension of the consequences"
- self-knowledge
- an understanding of yourself and your goals and abilities
- realization, realisation, recognition
- coming to understand something by thinking about it; "a growing realization of the risk involved"; "a sudden consciousness of the problem he faced"
- reading
- the cognitive process of understanding a written linguistic message; "he enjoys reading books"
- linguistic process, language
- the cognitive processes involved in producing and understanding linguistic communication; "he didn't have the language to express his feelings"
- speed-reading
- reading at speeds significantly faster than normal
- deja vu
- the experience of thinking that a new situation had occurred before
- life, living
- the experience of living; the course of human events and activities; "he could no longer cope with the complexities of life"
- reliving, re-experiencing
- a recurrence of a prior experience; "the reliving of a strong emotion can be therapeutic"
- noumenon, thing-in-itself
- the intellectual conception of a thing as it is in itself, not as it is known through perception
- disorientation, freak out
- a wild delusion (especially one induced by a hallucinogenic drug)
- condensation
- (psychoanalysis) an unconscious process whereby two ideas or images combine into a single symbol; especially in dreams
- psychoanalytic process
- a process that is assumed to occur in psychoanalytic theory
- compensation
- a defense mechanism that conceals your undesirable shortcomings by exaggerating desirable behaviors
- defense mechanism, defense reaction, defence mechanism, defence reaction, defense, defence
- an unconscious process that tries to reduce the anxiety associated with instinctive desires
- conversion
- a defense mechanism represses emotional conflicts which are then converted into physical symptoms that have no organic basis
- denial
- a defense mechanism that denies painful thoughts
- idealization, idealisation
- a defense mechanism that splits something you are ambivalent about into two representations--one good and one bad
- projection
- a defense mechanism by which your own traits and emotions are attributed to someone else
- rationalization, rationalisation
- a defense mechanism by which your true motivation is concealed by explaining your actions and feelings in a way that is not threatening
- regression
- a defense mechanism in which you flee from reality by assuming a more infantile state
- repression
- the classical defense mechanism that protects you from impulses or ideas that would cause anxiety by preventing them from becoming conscious
- desexualize
- direct one's libidinous urges into another direction
- sublimate
- direct energy or urges into useful activities
- rear back
- start with anger or resentment or in protest
- stun, bedaze, daze
- overcome esp. with astonishment or disbelief; "The news stunned her"
- besot, stupefy, stupify
- make dull or stupid; to muddle with drunkenness or infatuation
- stimulate, excite, stir
- stir feelings in; "stimulate my appetite"; "excite the audience"
- thrill
- cause to be thrilled by some perceptual input; "The men were thrilled by a loud whistle blow"
- hallucinate
- perceive what is not there; have illusions
- dream
- experience while sleeping; "She claims to never dream"; "He dreamt a strange scene"
- fantasize
- have fantasies
- color
- modify or bias; "His political ideas color his lectures"
- well up, swell
- as of feelings and thoughts, or other ephemeral things; "Strong emotions welled up"; "Smoke swelled from it"
- concern, interest, occupy, worry
- be on the mind of; "What is worrying you?"
- preoccupy
- occupy urgently or obsessively; "This matter proccupies her completely--she cannot think of anything else"
- associative, associatory
- characterized by or causing or resulting from association; "associative learning"
- nonassociative
- not associative
- nonconscious
- concerning mental functioning that is not represented in consciousness; "nonconscious psychic processes"
- subconscious
- just below the level of consciousness
- introjected
- (psychology) incorporated unconsciously into your own psyche
- condensed
- (psychology) representing two or more ideas or emotions by a single symbol; "a condensed expression of various feelings and ideas"
- intuitive, nonrational
- obtained through intuition rather than from reasoning or observation
- mental
- involving the mind or an intellectual process; "mental images of happy times"; "mental calculations"; "in a terrible mental state"; "mental suffering"; "free from mental defects"
- psychic, psychical
- affecting or influenced by the human mind; "psychic energy"; "psychic trauma"
- psychically
- from a psychic point of view; "he was psychically blind"
- understandingly
- with understanding; "she nodded understandingly"
- subconsciously
- from the subconscious mind; "the image came to him subsconsciously"
Instance WordNet synsets
- Passion
- the suffering of Jesus at the crucifixion