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Need to affiliate refers to the desire to associate with other people.
Need to belong refers to a motivation to bond with others in relationships that provide ongoing, positive interactions .
Need-directed perception is perception whose purpose is to locate things in the environment that will satisfy a need.
Need-directed perception is also called Deficiency perception or D-perception.
Negation (inversion) is a form of Piagetian reversibility such that any operation can always be negated, or inverted.
Negative after-potential refers to a drop in electrical charge below the resting potential.
Negative afterimage is opposite in brightness and complementary in color to the visual stimulus. Contrast with Positive afterimage
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