Glossary D

Glossary D

Divided attention means allotting mental space or effort to various tasks or parts of a task. The ways in which a cognitive processor allocates cognitive resources to two (2) or more tasks that are carried out simultaneously. Divided attention is the ability to pay attention and successfully perform more than one task at a time.

Divided conditions refer to the ranges of the last three (3) points of two (2) conditions are mutually exclusive.

Divisible task refers to a task that can be broken down into subcomponents which can then be assigned to individuals or to subgroups within the group

Divisible versus a Unitary task is defined as:

Division 38 refers to the Division of Health Psychology of the American Psychological Association (APA) that recently celebrated 25 years of existence.

Division of labor refers to the situation in which each person performs one narrow, highly specialized job in the culture ; splitting the activities needed to accomplish a task between participants.

Dizygotic that which pertains to or derived from two (2) separate zygotes.

Dizygotic (DZ) twins refers to Fraternal twins, who develop from two (2) separate eggs/zygotes fertilized at the same time; twins that share about 50% of their genetic material. Moreover, Dizygotic (DZ) twins refer to non-identical, or fraternal twins who are genetically alike only to the same degree as other siblings. Please see also Monozygotic twins.