DIFFERENTIATION
1. Sensory discrimination. 2. process of conditioning where desired behaviour is achieved by selective reinforcemnet. 3. Embyology where cells change…
DIGIT SYMBOL
A perfromance test on the adult intelligence scale to see how quickly it takes to name the digit associated with…
DIRECT SUGGESTION
1. Supportive psychotherapy. Where emotional stress is tried to be relieved by reassurance and encouragement. 2. Hypnotherapy. Where a client…
DISCHARGE RATE
The ratio of patients sent home during a set period of time from a hospital.
DISCOVERY METHOD
A teaching method where students bexperience the processby way of experiments and reasoning.
DISCRIMINATED OPERANT
An operant under stimulus control where response is more likely to occur with a discriminative stimulus is present tahn when…
DISJUNCTIVE CONCEPT
A concept based onthe set of attributes that are not needed in every instance. Compare conjunctive concept. See family resemblance.
DISORIENTATION
The impaired ability to identify yourself in relation to time, place and other aspects of your surroundings.
DISTRACTION
An interruption to attention or anything that draws attention away from the primary task.
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.