DISCONTINUITY THEORY
Compare to continuity hypothesis. See all-or-none learning hypothesis- eureka task.
DISINHIBITION
1. Lessening or loss of normal control exerted by the cerebral cortex. 2. Conditioning experiments where a response has been…
DISYNAPTIC ARC
The neural arc where there is an interneuron between a sensory and a motor neuron. See reflex arc.
DOUBLE BIND
The situation where a person recieves contradictory messages from one person or from different people.
DUAL REPRESENTATION
Being able to comprehend an object as itself and representing another thing. Also called dual encoding- dual orientation.
DYSEXECUTIVE SYNDROME (DES)
A collection of symptoms that involve impaired executive control over actions. Caused by frontal lobe brain damage.
ECOLOGICAL VALIDITY
1. The degree where results obtained from research are representative to conditions in the wider world.2. Perception. The degree that…
EGO IDENTITY
1. Psychoanalytical theory.The experience of the self as a recognisable entity. 2. The gradual acquisition of a sense of continuity,…
ELABORATIVE REHEARSAL
An encoding strategy to facilitate information of memory linking new information to that already known. See depth of processing hypothesis-…
EMERGENTISM
The view that complex phenomena have mergent properties arising from interactions of more basic processes.
EMPIRICAL VALIDITY
The validity that is based on results of observation and experimentation.
ENVIRONMENTAL ATTITUDES
Beliefs of people and society in relation to nature, ecology and issues of the environment.
ETHICAL JUDGMENT
1. The moral decision made by a person in a dilemma.2. The faculty of making moral distinctions. Also called moral…
EVOLUTIONARY THEORY
A theory accounting for evolution of organisms over successive generations.
EXISTENTIALISM
A philosophical and literary movement coming out of europe between the World Wars and was dominant through the 1940's and…
EXPERIMENTER EFFECT
One of 2 errors. (a) errors from the experimenter, (b) the bias from effects of the participants. See experimenter bias-…
LEADER-MEMBER EXCHANGE THEORY (LMX THEORY!
An assumption that leaders will develop relationships which typically involve a degree of exchange between themselves and subordinates or co-workers.…
LEISURE LIFESTYLE
A lifestyle (way of living) in which free time, otherwise referred to as leisure time forms a large part of…