Meanings
nounsubception (uncountable)
- uncountablehuman sciencesAn unconscious perceptual defense of applying strategies to prevent a troubling stimulus from entering consciousness.
Since the internal environment of memory is selective on the basis of prior emotional reinforcements of experience, internal subception of images, ideas and such is necessarily very complicated.
2012, William F. O'Neill, George D. Demos, Philosophical Psychology: A New Frontier in Education and Therapy, p. 18
Synonyms & antonyms
noun(psychology) perception of or reaction to a stimulus that occurs without awareness or consciousness.
Similar
subliminal perception
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