Glossary D
Glossary D
Deutsch: Dilemma / Español: Dilema / Português: Dilema / Français: Dilemme / Italiano: Dilemma
In psychology, a dilemma refers to a situation in which a difficult choice has to be made between two or more alternatives, especially equally undesirable ones. It often involves a conflict between moral imperatives, where to obey one would result in transgressing another.
Deutsch: Verdünnung / Español: Dilución / Português: Diluição / Français: Dilution / Italiano: Diluizione
In the psychology context, dilution refers to the weakening or lessening of the impact, intensity, or effectiveness of a stimulus, thought, memory, or emotion when it is combined with other factors or competing stimuli. This concept is often explored in areas like perception, cognition, and decision-making, where multiple sources of information or emotions can reduce the salience or strength of a particular element.
Dimensional Approach refers to an approach to study personality that posits continuous trait dimensions along which people can vary, instead of qualitatively different types.
Deutsch: Dimensionale Klassifikation / Español: Clasificación Dimensional / Português: Classificação Dimensional / Français: Classification Dimensionnelle / Italiano: Classificazione Dimensionale /
Dimensional Classification refers to an empirically based approach to the Diagnosis and Classification of child psychopathology which assumes that there are a number of independent dimensions or traits of behavior and that all children possess these dimensions to varying degrees.