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Ideology
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Ideology A set of ideas, beliefs, or principles to which a person or group adheres, lives by, and possibly dies for.
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Ideogogic
In sex therapy, treatment that involves discussion of ideas and the meaning of one's behavior to other people who are affected by it.
Ideological norm
The standard of what is normal as defined by those who, even though in a minority, exercise their authority to impose their own ideology and values on others whom they overpower.
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Ideation
In mental life, the collective representation of thoughts and ideas presently recognized, recalled from memory, or projected into the future, singly or in combination.
Identification
The process of becoming like someone as a sequel to assimilating or copying that person's activities, behavior, and reactions. The term is applied especially to the differentiation of G-I/R (gender identity/role).
Ideogogic
In sex therapy, treatment that involves discussion of ideas and the meaning of one's behavior to other people who are affected by it.
Idiographic
Specific to the self and unique to one's own biography.
Ideological norm
The standard of what is normal as defined by those who, even though in a minority, exercise their authority to impose their own ideology and values on others whom they overpower.
Ideology
Idiopathic
Of unexplained origin, as in the development of a symptom or syndrome that is apparently spontaneously generated.
Idiosyncratic
Pertaining to one's individual and sujectively personal ideation, cognitions, affect, tastes, attitudes, habits and behaviors. As in fingerprints, irises, and DNA coding (except in identical twins) the term pertains to one's individuality in any specific measurable factor. Compare to phyletic.
Imagery
In mental life, the collective representation of mental images or depictions of anything either perceived (perceptual imagery) or, if not actually present as a sensory stimulus, recognized in memory (memory imagery), or in dream, confabulation, or fantasy (fictive imagery). Imagery refers to a predominantly visual sensory modality of input.
Immutable
Long-lasting and unchangeable.
Imperative
The converse of adventive, in the sense of being obligatory in the development of all members of a species.
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Ideogogic
In sex therapy, treatment that involves discussion of ideas and the meaning of one's behavior to other people who are affected by it.
Ideological norm
The standard of what is normal as defined by those who, even though in a minority, exercise their authority to impose their own ideology and values on others whom they overpower.
PREVIOUS AND NEXT TERMS--------------------------------------
Ideation
In mental life, the collective representation of thoughts and ideas presently recognized, recalled from memory, or projected into the future, singly or in combination.
Identification
The process of becoming like someone as a sequel to assimilating or copying that person's activities, behavior, and reactions. The term is applied especially to the differentiation of G-I/R (gender identity/role).
Ideogogic
In sex therapy, treatment that involves discussion of ideas and the meaning of one's behavior to other people who are affected by it.
Idiographic
Specific to the self and unique to one's own biography.
Ideological norm
The standard of what is normal as defined by those who, even though in a minority, exercise their authority to impose their own ideology and values on others whom they overpower.
Ideology
Idiopathic
Of unexplained origin, as in the development of a symptom or syndrome that is apparently spontaneously generated.
Idiosyncratic
Pertaining to one's individual and sujectively personal ideation, cognitions, affect, tastes, attitudes, habits and behaviors. As in fingerprints, irises, and DNA coding (except in identical twins) the term pertains to one's individuality in any specific measurable factor. Compare to phyletic.
Imagery
In mental life, the collective representation of mental images or depictions of anything either perceived (perceptual imagery) or, if not actually present as a sensory stimulus, recognized in memory (memory imagery), or in dream, confabulation, or fantasy (fictive imagery). Imagery refers to a predominantly visual sensory modality of input.
Immutable
Long-lasting and unchangeable.
Imperative
The converse of adventive, in the sense of being obligatory in the development of all members of a species.
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