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Matching words with their definitions
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Rorschach Test | a personality and intelligence test in which someone looks at ink blots of different shapes and then describes what the shapes look like |
| Thematic Perception Test | a projective technique that is widely used in clinical psychology to make personality, psychodynamic, and diagnostic assessments based on the subject's verbal responses to a series of black-and-white pictures |
| motivation | the act or process of giving someone a reason for doing something : the act or process of motivating someone |
| I.Q. | a number that represents your intelligence and that is based on your score on a special test |
| subconscious | existing in the part of the mind that a person is not aware of : existing in the mind but not consciously known or felt |
| conscious | awake and able to understand what is happening around you |
| deceive | to make (someone) believe something that is not true |
| refute | to prove that (something) is not true |
| intellectual | of or relating to the ability to think in a logical way |
| naivety | chiefly British |
| deterioration | the act or process of becoming worse |
| introspective | a reflective looking inward : an examination of one's own thoughts and feelings |
| interim | a period of time between events |
| perplexed | unable to understand something clearly or to think clearly |
| opportunist | someone who tries to get an advantage or something valuable from a situation without thinking about what is fair or right |
| degenerate | having low moral standards : not honest, proper, or good |
| meta-cognition | awareness or analysis of one's own learning or thinking processes |
| regression | a trend or shift toward a lower or less perfect state: as |
| dissociation | the separation of whole segments of the personality (as in multiple personality disorder) or of discrete mental processes (as in the schizophrenias) from the mainstream of consciousness or of behavior |
| feeble-minded | mentally deficient |