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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 …