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…