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DYNAMIC INTERACTIONISM

A model of behaviour and personality where development depends on a continuous and reciprocal interaction with the environment.

DYSAUTONOMIA

A dysfunction of the autonomic nervous system that includes impairment, failure or an over activity of the sympathetic or parasympathetic

DYSGEUSIA

An abnormality in the sense of taste.

DYSOSTOSIS

The development of the skeleton that is effected by hereditary factors or due to improper care after birth. Usually sen

DYSPROSODY

Abnormal or unusual alteration of speech patterns.

DECEPTION

1. Distortion of facts. 2. Animal behaviour. Where false information is provided to others so the individual has more resources

DECISIVE MOMENT

Psychotherapy. Moment a client makes a momentous decision.

DECUSSATION

A crossing or an intersection that looks like the letter X.

DEFECT

A error, fault, missing element. See congenital defect- genetic defect.

DEFENSIVENESS

The tendency to be sensitive to comments and criticism and to deny them.

DEGRADED STIMULUS

A stimulus, visual or auditory that has had a noise added to it that makes it harder to percieve.

DEJA PENSE

The feeling where you have had the same thoughts before even you haven't.

DELAYED REINFORCEMENT

Reinforcement that happens after a response. Delay may be signaled or unsignaled.

DELTA ALCOHOLISM

The fourth stage of alcoholism wher a person drinks everyday and control over intake is not totally gone. See alpha,

DELUSIONAL SYSTEM

A group of logically connected delusions of a person.

DEMOCRATIC PARENTING

A style of parenting suggested by Alfred Adler where the parents guide a child's development in a steady and accepting

DENDRITIC THORN, DENDRITIC TREE

Total arrangements of the dendrites of one neuron.

DENTATE NUCLEUS

A cluster of cells in the cerebellum.

DEPERSONALIZATION

The state of mind where the self appears to be unreal.

DEPRESSOR NERVE

A nerve that depresses a motor or glandualr activity.