Category: D

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

Disorganized/Disoriented Attachment Disorganized/Disoriented Attachment is a type of childhood insecure attachment style identified by Mary Ainsworth. During The Strange Situation Test a…

Discrimination Discrimination is a term that is used in both classical and operant conditioning. In Classical Conditioning, it refers to an ability…

Discriminant Validity Discriminant validity is the degree to which scores on a test *do not* correlated with scores from other tests that…

Differentiation Differentiation typically refers to a developmental process when a skill becomes more sophisticated and broken into subsets. For example, a child…

Differential Psychology This is the field of psychology established by Galton, that studies all the behavioural and cognitive differences between people including…

Difference Threshold The difference threshold, also known as the just noticeable difference (jnd), is the minimum difference in stimulation that a person…

Developmental Psychology Developmental psychology is the branch of psychology that studies the physical, cognitive, and social changes of humans throughout their life…

Descriptive Statistics Descriptive statistics are used by researchers to summarize and “describe” data found during research. Typically researchers deal with lots of…

Depth Perception Depth perception is the ability to judge the distances of objects, which also allows us to see them in three…