DIAGNOSTIC OVERSHADOWING
The failure to see a problem because the symptoms are attrinuted to another disability. See dual dignosis.
DIFFERENTIAL ACCURACY
The way of determining how accurately a person's traits differ from the sterotype attributed to them such as age or…
DIFFERENTIAL RELAXATION
Technique where we exert only the muscle tension required for an activity.
DIRECT SCALING
A way to develop numerical scales of magnitude of psychological factors where the observer makes a judgement on size of…
DIRECTIVE DISCIPLINE
Provides answers to prescriptive questions of society and the conduct of people's lives.
DISCRIMINANT FUNCTION
A statistical technique used to place an item when it belongs to more than 2 variables with a minimum error…
DISEASE MODEL
A theory concerned with the cause and course of a pathological condition or process.
DISINTEGRATION OF PERSONALITY
The fragmentation of the personality where the person is longer a unified individual with predictable traits and responses.
DISORGANIZED SCHIZOPHRENIA
A subtype of schizophrenia where a person has random and fragmented speech and beahviour with grimaces, laughter and an extreme…
DISRUPTIVE BEHAVIOR DISORDER
A psychiatric disorder showing disruptive behaviour sever enough that is creates an impairment in social or occupational functioning.
DISSONANCE REDUCTION
Process where a person reduces an uncofortable psychological state resulting from an inconsistency of cognitive systems. See bolstering of an…
DISTORTION
1. Unconscious process of altering emotions and thoughts or the conscious misrepresentation of facts. 2. Psychoanalytic theory. Using dream work…
DISTURBANCE OF ASSOCIATION
Interrupting a logical chain of accepted thought giving rise to confused and haphazard thinking. See also schizophrenic thinking- thought disorder.