DESIGN FLUENCY TEST
A group of tests that are time limited and need to draw figures or remodel lines to make shapes. Also…
DIABETIC ENTEROPATHY
A complication of diabetes mellitus marked by fecal incontinence at night. See gastric neuropathy.
DIFFERENTIAL VALIDITY
Accuracy and validity of tests of a person's success in different tasks.
DIVERGENT THINKING
Thinking that formulates new solutions to problems. Compare convergent thinking.
DOUBLE STANDARD
A hypocritical belief where one behaviour is admissible in one group but not in the other.
DUCHENNE SMILE
A smile that characterised by crow's feet around the eyes and an upturning of lips.
DYSGENIC PRESSURE
A reduction of a population's intelligence attributed to a changing gene pool. See Flynn effect.
EGO PSYCHOLOGY THEORIES
Combine biological and psychological views of people's development while recognising the complex influences of sociocultural dimensions on individual functioning.
ELECTROOCULOGRAM (EOG)
Graphic representation of the elcetrical potential between the front and back of the eye.
EMPIRICALLY KEYED TEST
A test where the answers are coded in a way to maximise criterion validity, construct validity or both. See empirical…
ENVIRONMENTAL HAZARDS
Factors from the environment that pose danger to a person, community or organism.
EQUIVALENCE CLASS
A stimulus group that exhibits reflexivity, symmetry and transitivity in the context of conditional discriminations.