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Dopamine Dopamine is both a neurotransmitter and a neurohormone produced in multiple areas of the brain. As a hormone, it is often…

Door-in-the-Face Technique This is a technique used to get compliance from others (to get them to behave in a way you want)…

DNA Your genetic makeup (who you are genetically which controls things like eye color, hair color, bone structure, organ size, etc.) is…

Divergent Thinking A cognitive process (a mode of critical thinking) in which a person generates many unique, creative responses to a single…

Distress This term refers to the ?bad? type of stress (the opposite of Eustress), and occurs when we have excessive adaptive demands…

Dissociative Fugue Dissociative Fugue (also known as just Fugue) is a really interesting type of disorder in which a person suffers a…

Dissociative Disorders Dissociative disorders are disorders such as psychogenic fugue, multiple personalities, and psychogenic amnesia in which a person’s conscious awareness becomes…

Dissociation Dissociation is a split in the mind in which there can be two independent streams of consciousness occurring at the same…

Displacement According to Freudian psychoanalytic theory, displacement is when a person shifts his/her impulses from an unacceptable target to a more acceptable…

Displaced A displaced emotion is one that is unconsciously redirected from the original object to a safer or more acceptable one. Displacement…