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  2. Subconscious - Wikipedia

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    Charles Rycroft explains that the subconscious is a term "never used in psychoanalytic writings". [9] Peter Gay says that the use of the term subconscious where unconscious is meant is "a common and telling mistake"; [10] indeed, "when [the term] is employed to say something 'Freudian', it is proof that the writer has not read [their] Freud". [11]

  3. Linguistic performance - Wikipedia

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    For example, if the clause density is 2.0, the ratio would indicate that the sentence being analyzed has 2 clauses on average: one main clause and one subordinate clause. Here is an example of how clause density is measured, using T-units, adapted from Silliman & Wilkinson 2007: [35]

  4. Generative grammar - Wikipedia

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    For example, generative theories generally provide competence-based explanations for why English speakers would judge the sentence in (1) as odd. In these explanations, the sentence would be ungrammatical because the rules of English only generate sentences where demonstratives agree with the grammatical number of their associated noun. [14]

  5. Linguistic competence - Wikipedia

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    For example, many linguistic theories, particularly in generative grammar, give competence-based explanations for why English speakers would judge the sentence in (1) as odd. In these explanations, the sentence would be ungrammatical because the rules of English only generate sentences where demonstratives agree with the grammatical number of ...

  6. Interpersonal deception theory - Wikipedia

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    Interpersonal Deception Theory (IDT) attempts to explain the manner in which individuals engaged in face-to-face communication deal with actual or perceived deception on the conscious and subconscious levels. IDT proposes that the majority of individuals overestimate their ability to detect deception.

  7. Primary and secondary gain - Wikipedia

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    If a patient's disease allows them to miss work, avoid military duty, obtain financial compensation, obtain drugs, avoid a jail sentence, etc., these would be examples of a secondary gain. For instance, an individual having household chores completed by someone else because they have stomach cramps would be a secondary gain.

  8. Freudian slip - Wikipedia

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    The Freudian slip is named after Sigmund Freud, who, in his 1901 book The Psychopathology of Everyday Life, [1] described and analyzed a large number of seemingly trivial, even bizarre, or nonsensical errors and slips, most notably the Signorelli parapraxis.

  9. Freud's psychoanalytic theories - Wikipedia

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    Freud compared the Id and the Ego to a horse and a rider. The Id is compared to the horse, which is directed and controlled by the Ego, the rider. This example goes to show that although the Id is supposed to be controlled by the Ego, they often interact with one another according to the drives of the Ego.