psychological feature

/ˌˈsaɪkəˌˈlɑdʒəkəl ˌfitʃər/

Other forms: psychological features

Definitions of psychological feature

1. noun

   a feature of the mental life of a living organism
   types:

   cognition, knowledge, noesis

   the psychological result of perception and learning and reasoning

   motivation, motive, need

   the psychological feature that arouses an organism to action toward a desired goal; the reason for the action; that which gives purpose and direction to behavior

   event

   something that happens at a given place and time

   act, deed, human action, human activity

   something that people do or cause to happen

   group action

   action taken by a group of people

   brain, head, mind, nous, psyche

   that which is responsible for one's thoughts and feelings; the seat of the faculty of reason

   place

   an abstract mental location

   general knowledge, public knowledge

   knowledge that is available to anyone

   episteme

   the body of ideas that determine the knowledge that is intellectually certain at any particular time

   ability, power

   possession of the qualities (especially mental qualities) required to do something or get something done

   inability

   lack of ability (especially mental ability) to do something

   lexis

   all of the words in a language; all word forms having meaning or grammatical function

   lexicon, mental lexicon, vocabulary

   a language user's knowledge of words

   practice

   knowledge of how something is usually done

   cognitive factor

   something immaterial (as a circumstance or influence) that contributes to producing a result

   equivalent

   a person or thing equal to another in value, measure, force, effect, significance, etc.

   cognitive operation, cognitive process, mental process, operation, process

   (psychology) the performance of some composite cognitive activity; an operation that affects mental contents

   process, unconscious process

   a mental process that you are not directly aware of

   perception

   knowledge gained by perceiving

   structure

   the complex composition of knowledge as elements and their combinations

   cognitive content, content, mental object

   the sum or range of what has been perceived, discovered, or learned

   information

   knowledge acquired through study or experience or instruction

   history

   all that is remembered of the past as preserved in writing; a body of knowledge

   attitude, mental attitude

   a complex mental state involving beliefs and feelings and values and dispositions to act in certain ways

   might-have-been

   an event that could have occurred but never did

   nonevent

   an anticipated event that turns out to be far less significant than was expected

   happening, natural event, occurrence, occurrent

   an event that happens

   social event

   an event characteristic of persons forming groups

   miracle

   a marvellous event manifesting a supernatural act of a divine agent

   migration

   (chemistry) the nonrandom movement of an atom or radical from one place to another within a molecule

   make-up, makeup

   an event that is substituted for a previously cancelled event

   zap

   a sudden event that imparts energy or excitement, usually with a dramatic impact

   life

   a motive for living

   rational motive

   a motive that can be defended by reasoning or logical argument

   irrational motive

   a motivation that is inconsistent with reason or logic

   impulse, urge

   an instinctive motive

   ethical motive, ethics, morality, morals

   motivation based on ideas of right and wrong

   mental energy, psychic energy

   an actuating force or factor

   farce

   an event or situation that is absurd, empty, or insincere

   type of:

   abstract entity, abstraction

   a general concept formed by extracting common features from specific examples