DISCRIMINANT VALIDITY
Form of construct validity shown by measuring the constructs conceptually unrelated and o not correlate with data.
DISEASE OF ADAPTATION
Any illness that is caused by a long term defective physiological or psychological reaction to stress.
DISRUPTIVE BEHAVIOR DISORDER NOT OTHERWISE SPECIFIED
Any pattern of disruptive behaviour that does not have a specific category.
DISTRACTIBILITY
Having difficulty in maintaining attention or being easily diverted away from an activity. See flight of ideas.
DISTURBANCE TERM RESIDUAL TERM, ERROR VARIANCE
The variablity in a score not systematic or controlled and not produced by an independent variable.
DIVIDED ATTENTION
Paying attention to 2 things at once so more tasks can be performed at the same time.
DOMINANCE AGGRESSION
Form of animal aggression involving one animal having a higher status over the others by the use of threats or…
DOUBLE BIND
The situation where a person recieves contradictory messages from one person or from different people.
DOWN THROUGH
Technique used to test clairvoyance where a person is asked to list the zener cards in order from top of…