| projective techniques | Techniques whereby personality attributes are revealed through the subject's responses to relatively unstructured, ambiguous, or vague stimuli. These responses represent projections of the subject's own fears and needs. (12 Dec 1998) |
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| projective test | A loosely structured psychological test containing many ambiguous stimuli that require the subject to reveal his own feelings, personality, or psychopathology in response to them; e.g., Rorschach test, thematic apperception test. (05 Mar 2000) |
| animal identification systems | Procedures for recognizing individual animals and certain identifiable characteristics pertaining to them; includes computerised methods, ear tags, etc. (12 Dec 1998) |
| patient identification systems | Organised procedures for establishing patient identity, including use of bracelets, etc. (12 Dec 1998) |
| social identification | The process wherein the individual so strongly feels himself a member of a group that he adopts its ideas, beliefs, and habits. (12 Dec 1998) |
| denture identification marking | Any system of defining ownership of dentures or dental prostheses. (12 Dec 1998) |
| identification | <psychology> An unconscious defense mechanism by which an individual endeavors to pattern himself after another person. This process is also important in the development of the personality, particularly the superego or conscience, which is modeled largely on the behaviour of adult significant others. (18 Nov 1997) |
| field identification | <zoology> The determination of the taxonomic identity of an individual specimen, under field conditions, often with the aid of keys etc. See: Identification. (09 Jan 1998) |