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.
DOUBLE BLIND
An experimental procedure where the nature of the experiment is not known. See blind. Compare single blind- triple blind.
DUAL CODING THEORY
1.Lingusitics. Theory that an input represented in memory as a word and a picture is more readily recalled than a…
DUSTBOWL EMPIRICISM
The approach to science and social science consisting of making empirical observations and collecting data rather than establishing a theoretical…
DYNAMIC FORMULATION
The attempt to organise a clients information so the therapist can better treat and understand the client.
DYSARTHRIA
Dysarthria is a motor disorder of speech caused by a cerebellar stroke weakening the muscles of the mouth, face and…
DYSGENIC PRESSURE
A reduction of a population's intelligence attributed to a changing gene pool. See Flynn effect.
DECENTRATION
Jean Piaget's theory of cognitive development where a child slowly moves away from an egocentric world to a world shared…
DECISION-REDECISION METHOD
Technique used in transactional analysis allowing clients to re-experience decisions from childhood and choose to re-decide.
DECULTURATION
The process where aspects of one culture is lost after contact with another one. Compare acculturation.