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DREAM STIMULUS

Any stimuli that can initiate a dream. Compare accidental stimulus.

DRIVER TRAINING

Training a person with a disability undergoes to drive a car.

DRUG-INDUCED PSYCHOSIS

The psychotic state that results from abusing drugs.

DUAL-ASPECT PHYSICALISM

The solution theoretically about the mind and body problem claiming ther are 2 aspects of reality.

DURAGESIC

Trade name for fentanyl.

DYNAMIC

1. pertaining to force. 2. Continuously changing. 3. Desxcribes systems of psychology emphasising motivation, mental processes and compexities of force

DYNAMIC TOUCH

Being able to perceive an object by wielding and manipulating it.

DYSEXECUTIVE SYNDROME (DES)

A collection of symptoms that involve impaired executive control over actions. Caused by frontal lobe brain damage.

DYSMNESIA

Memory impairment that be a discrete episode or part of a chronic condition. Also called dysmnesic syndrome.

DYSPHORIA

Mood characterised by sadness.

DYSTHYMIC DISORDER

A depressive disorder featuring a depressed mood more often than not that keeps up for at least 2 years.

DECISION MAKING

The process of choosing between alternatives.

DECOMPRESSION SICKNESS

The effect of the body after being expose to high pressure such as deep under water and rising too fast

DEEP DYSLEXIA

An acquired form of dyslexia with semantic errors, reading abstract words is difficult as is function words.

DEFENSE MECHANISM

Classical psychoanalytical theory. The unconscious reaction the ego uses to protect itself from anxiety arising from psychic conflict. Also called

DEFINITION

Optics. Clarity of a reproduced image. Compare resolution.

DEHYPNOSIS

Where the befief of hypnotic fantasies are eliminated.

DE

A task for non-human animals that need to learn that food will be rewarded on different sides of the cage

DELIRE DU TOUCHER

A compulsion to touch objects.

DELUSION OF PERSECUTION

The belief where a person hinks he is being conspired against. See persecutory delusion.