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reality testing

–noun Psychiatry.
the objective evaluation of situations, defective in certain psychoses, that enable one to distinguish between the external and the internal worlds and between the self and the nonself.

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1920–25
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Main Entry: reality testing
Function: noun
: the psychological process in which acts are explored and their outcomes determined so that the individual will be aware ofthese consequences when the stimulus to act in a given fashion recurs
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reality testing n.
In psychoanalytic theory, the ego function by which the objective or real world and one's relationship to it are evaluated and appreciated by the self.

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