| situation | The aggregate of biological, psychological, and sociological factors that affect an individual's behavioural pattern. (05 Mar 2000) |
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| situation anxiety | Anxiety related to current life problems. (05 Mar 2000) |
| situational psychosis | A transitory but severe emotional disorder caused in a predisposed person by a seemingly unbearable situation. (05 Mar 2000) |
| situational test | In psychology and psychiatry, a test situation in which a subject is observed as he or she performs a task or an actual sample of the job or role to be performed; e.g., a test used to select individuals for the Office of Strategic Services during the Second World War and for managerial positions today. (05 Mar 2000) |
| psychoanalytic situation | The relationship, characteristically restricted to the therapist's office, between patient and therapist. (05 Mar 2000) |
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