Neurology

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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.

DISCOVERY LEARNING

Learning that we get by solving problems and formulating hypotheses.

DISORDER

A group of systems that can involve abnormal behaviour, intense or persistent stress or the disruption of a function. See

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.

EDEMATOUS

1. Edge or border of an object. 2. Border between 2 elememnts in an image.

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.

EMOTIONAL BLOCKING

Inhibition of thought, speech due to extreme emotion. See blocking.

EMPIRICALLY KEYED TEST

A test where the answers are coded in a way to maximise criterion validity, construct validity or both. See empirical

ENDOMORPH

A body type in Sheldon's theory of personality. A soft, round physique, correlated with viscerotonia. Also called endomorphic body type.

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.

ETHNICITY

The categorisation socially based on a person's ethnic group. See ethnic identity.

EXCITATION

An activity elicited in a nerve or muscle when stimulated.

EXOGENOUS STRESS

Strees coming from an external situation.