DYNAMIC PSYCHOTHERAPY
Technique used in psychotherapy focusing on underlying motivational or defensive factors determining behaviour an dadjustment. See depth therapy.
DYSCHROMATOPSIA
A congenital defect or an acquired defect in discriminating one colour from another. See cerebral dyschromatopsia.
DECLINE EFFECT
Parapsychology. When a person's accuracy at 'guessing' cards slowly drops to the chance levels as more trials are carried out.…
DEDUCTIVE REASONING
Logical reasoning where the conclusion follows a set of premises. See logic- top-down analysis.
DEFICIENCY LOVE (D-LOVE)
Abraham Maslow's humanistic psychology. Love that oriented by fulfillment and featuring dependency. Compare being love.
DELAY-OF-REWARD GRADIENT
The relation between the delay of reinforcement and how effective the reinfocement is. Also called delay of reinforcement gradient.
DEPLETIVE TREATMENT
Treatment involving weakening an organism by depleting it of a harmful substance.
DEPRIVATION INDEX
Measure of the degree of inadequacy in a child's intellectual environment.