DIVIDED CONSCIOUSNESS
State where more than one mental activity is being carried out.See dual task competition.
DOMINANCE HIERARCHY
1. Social psychology. The system with stable linear variations in prestige, status and authority among members. See status relations. 2.…
DON'T-HOLD FUNCTIONS
A cognitive ability such as digit-symbol association that can deteriorate with age.
DOUBLE BLIND
An experimental procedure where the nature of the experiment is not known. See blind. Compare single blind- triple blind.
DUAL CODING THEORY
1.Lingusitics. Theory that an input represented in memory as a word and a picture is more readily recalled than a…
DUSTBOWL EMPIRICISM
The approach to science and social science consisting of making empirical observations and collecting data rather than establishing a theoretical…
DYNAMIC FORMULATION
The attempt to organise a clients information so the therapist can better treat and understand the client.
DYSARTHRIA
Dysarthria is a motor disorder of speech caused by a cerebellar stroke weakening the muscles of the mouth, face and…
DYSGENIC PRESSURE
A reduction of a population's intelligence attributed to a changing gene pool. See Flynn effect.