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Psychological Phenomena > Psychological Theory > Psychoanalytic Theory > Ego > Reality Testing
Behavior and Behavior Mechanisms > Personality > Personality Development > Ego > Reality Testing

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Reality Testing  

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Note

  • note category: not a diag test: "ego function that consists of the objective evaluation & judgment of the external world"; no qualif

Scope note

  • The individual's objective evaluation of the external world and the ability to differentiate adequately between it and the internal world; considered to be a primary ego function.

History note

  • 91(79); was see under EGO 1979-90

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http://www.yso.fi/onto/mesh/D011936

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