- autochthonous idea by Nolan Salazar
N. A thought that suddenly bursts into the consciousness and is often believed to have come from an outside source.
- Freudian slip by Shelby Tate
N. A verbal mistake that is thought to reveal an unconscious belief, thought, or emotion.
- loosening of association by Maggie Crawford
N. A manifestation of a severe thought disorder characterized by the lack of an obvious connection between one thought or phrase and the next.
- intuitive stage by Josephine Newton
N. A stage of development, usually occurring between 4 and 7 years of age, in which a child's thought processes are determined by the most prominent aspects of the stimuli to which he or she is exposed, rather than by some form of logical thought.
- thinking by Mackenzie West
Or thoughtAction of using one's mind to produce thoughts, or covert symbolic responses to stimuli. Theories of thought and thought processes have concentrated largely on directed thinking, including problem solving. At the beginning of the 20th century, researchers focused on studying mental associations. Theorists of Gestalt psychology in the 1920s ...