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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 …

Deprivation Study A deprivation study is a form of research in which an organism is prevented from having something they want or …