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DISULFIRAM

Drug used to manage alcohol abuse.

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.

DORSAL COLUMN SYSTEM

A somatosensory system that transmits information about about touch.

DOUBLE BLIND

An experimental procedure where the nature of the experiment is not known. See blind. Compare single blind- triple blind.

DOWNERS

Slang term for a sedative, hynotic or anti-anxiety drug.

DREAM

The mental state occuring during sleep.

DRESSING BEHAVIOR

How we dress in accordance to social expectations. See cross dressing.

DROSOPHILA

A genus of fruit flies known as vinegar flies.

DUAL CODING THEORY

1.Lingusitics. Theory that an input represented in memory as a word and a picture is more readily recalled than a

DUE PROCESS

The administering of law according to the accepted and established principles.

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.

DYSOSMIA

A disorder in the sense of smell. See anosmia- hyperosmia- hyposmia- microsmia- parosmia- phantosmia- iroposmia.

DYSPRAXIA

The impaired ability to do skilled and coordinated movements that is neurologically based. See apraxia- acquired apraxia- constructional dyspraxia- developmental

DZ TWINS

Abbreviation for dizygotic twins.