DEVELOPMENTAL READINESS
A person's state of preparedness to do a given task or a grade level.
DIABETIC GASTROPATHY
Stomach disorder due to the effects of diabetes on the autonomic nervous system. See gastric neuropathy.
DIAGNOSTICITY
The value of information gained from an interaction, feedback or event by a person seeking self-knowledge.
DICHROMATISM
Partial colour blindness where the eye only contains 2 types of cone photopigment.
DIFFERENTIAL APTITUDE TESTS (DAT)
Tests used for educational and vocational counselling of students in grades 7 to 12.
DIFFERENTIATION
1. Sensory discrimination. 2. process of conditioning where desired behaviour is achieved by selective reinforcemnet. 3. Embyology where cells change…
DIGIT SYMBOL
A perfromance test on the adult intelligence scale to see how quickly it takes to name the digit associated with…
DIRECT SUGGESTION
1. Supportive psychotherapy. Where emotional stress is tried to be relieved by reassurance and encouragement. 2. Hypnotherapy. Where a client…
DISCHARGE RATE
The ratio of patients sent home during a set period of time from a hospital.
DISCOVERY METHOD
A teaching method where students bexperience the processby way of experiments and reasoning.
DISCRIMINATED OPERANT
An operant under stimulus control where response is more likely to occur with a discriminative stimulus is present tahn when…
DISJUNCTIVE CONCEPT
A concept based onthe set of attributes that are not needed in every instance. Compare conjunctive concept. See family resemblance.
DISORIENTATION
The impaired ability to identify yourself in relation to time, place and other aspects of your surroundings.