subception
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An unconscious perceptual defense of applying strategies to prevent a troubling stimulus from entering consciousness.
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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.
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(psychology) perception of or reaction to a stimulus that occurs without awareness or consciousness.
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Subliminal perception or cognition is a subset of unconscious cognition where the forms of unconscious cognition also include attending to one signal in a noisy environment while unconsciously keeping track of other signals (e.g one voice out of many in a crowded room) and tasks done automatically (e.g. driving a car).