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DEVELOPMENTAL STAGE

A time during development when certain features or abilities appear.

DEXTRALITY

The tendency to be right handed. See right handedness. Compare sinistrality.

DIAGNOSES) 1

1. Identifying and determining the nature of a disorder or disease. 2. Classification of a person based on disease, abnormality

DIALECTICAL TEACHING

A way of teaching where students critically examine their reasoning. Also called dialectical method.

DIBENZOXAZEPINE

An older antipsychotic similar to dibenzodiazepine.

DIETARY NEOPHOBIA

The avoidance of new foods often seen in children.

DIFFERENTIAL EXTINCTION

The extinction of a response by established conditioning while other responses stay the same.

DIFFUSE BIPOLAR CELL

A retinal bipolar cell that gets input from many receptors. Compare midget bipolar cell.

DIGRAPH

Two letters used to make a single speech sound. Compare dipthong.

DIMMING EFFECT

1. effect of bright light with fainter lights evident. 2. The increase in brightness of an image coming from dimming

DIRECT ATTITUDE MEASURE

A way of assessing attitudes where a person reports on their own attitude. See explicit attitude measure- implicit attitude measure.

DIRECTEDNESS

Sense of unified purpose that gives a personenduring motivation, continuity and orientation to the future.

DISABILITY

A lasting impairment that interfers with daily life functioning. See handicap.

DISCONNECTION SYNDROME

Neurological disorder where a cortical area that works with another becomes separated or isolated.

DISCRETE MOVEMENT TASK

A movement task with a start and an end. Compare continuous movement task.

DISCRIMINATIVE LEARNING, DISCRIMINATION OF CUES

Ability to distinguisn between 2 or more stimuli.

DISFIGUREMENT

The blemish or a deformity that will mar the surface of the body.

DISORDERS OF INFANCY, CHILDHOOD, OR ADOLESCENCE NOT OTHERWISE SPECIFIED

Any disorder starting in infancy, childhood or adolescence that does not fit any specific disorder.

DISPLAY

Presenting stimulus to the senses.

DISSOCIATIVE DISORDERS

A group of disorders showing a sudde, gradual or chronic disruption in normal integrative functions of consciousness, ememory etc.