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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.

DYSKINESIA

Any distorted voluntary movement. See extrapytamida- dyskenesia.

DYSPHAGIA

An impairment to swallowing.

DYSSOCIAL PERSONALITY

Obselete name for anti-social personality disorder.

DECEPTIVE ADVERTISING

Advertising that gives people the wrong idea about a product.

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.

DEFECTIVE DELINQUENT

An outdated name for a person showing continued criminal behaviour.

DEFICIENCY LOVE (D-LOVE)

Abraham Maslow's humanistic psychology. Love that oriented by fulfillment and featuring dependency. Compare being love.

DEHOAXING

The debriefing of people who have been involved in deception research.

DEJA VU

The feeling that an event has happened before. See false memory.

DELAY-OF-REWARD GRADIENT

The relation between the delay of reinforcement and how effective the reinfocement is. Also called delay of reinforcement gradient.

DELTA WAVE

The lowest frequency brain wave.

DEMAND FEEDING, SELF-DENIAL

The act of suppressing a desire and to forego a satisfaction.

DEMONOLATRY

Worship of devils or demons. See satanism- witchraft.

DENDROPHILIA

A paraphilia featuring an attraction to trees sexually.

DEOXYCORTICOSTERONE

A potent corticoid hormone that is the precursor corticosterone.

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.