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Mind and psychology — 心と心理

Perception and memory, instinct and impulse, the ego, desire, intuition, awareness. Read each word aloud with its reading, then write it once on the line — in kana if you cannot yet write the kanji.

しんり noun

心理 psychology, mentality

せいしん noun

精神 spirit, mind

きおくりょく noun

記憶力 memory (the faculty)

にんしき noun

認識 recognition, understanding

ちかく noun

知覚 perception

ちょっかん noun

直感 intuition

ほんのう noun

本能 instinct

よっきゅう noun

欲求 desire, need

しょうどう noun

衝動 impulse

じが noun

自我 the self, the ego

こせい noun

個性 individuality, personality

そしつ noun

素質 natural aptitude

ししつ noun

資質 nature, temperament, capacity

きしつ noun

気質 disposition, temperament

きょうかん noun

共感 empathy, sympathy

はっそう noun

発想 way of thinking, an idea

れんそう noun

連想 association (of ideas)

さっかく noun

錯覚 illusion, mistaken impression

じかく noun

自覚 self-awareness

むいしきな-adj

無意識 unconscious, unaware

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Mind and psychology — from memory

Cover page 1. Write the Japanese for each meaning (kana is fine), then write what each word in part 2 means. Page 1 is the answer key.

1 Write the Japanese

empathy, sympathy

noun

self-awareness

noun

disposition, temperament

noun

the self, the ego

noun

recognition, understanding

noun

intuition

noun

association (of ideas)

noun

instinct

noun

individuality, personality

noun

unconscious, unaware

な-adj

2 What does it mean?

発想

資質

知覚

錯覚

欲求

心理

衝動

精神

素質

記憶力

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