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Record 1 2002-05-27

English

Subject field(s)
  • Nervous System
OBS

The Aspen workgroup defined the minimally conscious state(MCS) as a condition of severely altered consciousness in which the person demonstrates minimal but definite behavioral evidence of self or environmental awareness

French

Domaine(s)
  • Système nerveux

Spanish

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Record 2 2000-02-23

English

Subject field(s)
  • Psychology (General)
DEF

According to Rogers, a defensive process in which experience is altered or disguised so as to be brought into awareness in a form that is consistent and acceptable with the superego or self. More specifically in psychoneurology and cognitive behavior, the process by which information in long-term memory is altered, thus making it inaccurate.

DEF

Overall effect of the dream-work: the latent thoughts are transformed into a manifest formation in which they are not easily recognisable. They are not only transposed, as it were, into another key, but they are also distorted in such a fashion that only an effort of interpretation can reconstitute them.

CONT

High fear produces less adherence to recommendations because it is likely to produce responses of denial, distortion and defensive avoidance. A very low level of fear ... does not cause sufficient motivational anxiety.

CONT

Liddle (1987) described a three-syndrome model comprised of reality distortion, psychomotor poverty and disorganization symptom clusters ... [Source: PASCAL database].

OBS

Related terms: dream-work, manifest content, latent content.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Psychologie (Généralités)
CONT

Les recommandations qui font appel à un degré élevé de peur ne sont pas écoutées; en effet il est probable qu'elles provoqueront une opposition, une déformation et un refus défensif.

OBS

Termes connexes : travail du rêve, contenu manifeste, contenu latent.

Spanish

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