Glossary D
Glossary D
Dual-earner households is defined as households in which both partners are employed.
Dual-stream model of speech perception refers to a model that proposes a ventral stream starting in the temporal lobe that is responsible for recognizing speech, and a dorsal stream starting in the parietal lobe that is responsible for linking the acoustic signal to the movements used to produce speech.
Dual-system hypothesis refers to a hypothesis that suggests that two (2) languages are represented somehow in separate systems of the mind
Dual-task performance refers to an experimental paradigm involving presentation of two (2) tasks for a person to work on simultaneously.
Dualism is the belief that mind and body are different kinds of substance , existing independently.
Moreover, Dualism is the view of behavior according to which actions can be separated into two (2) categories : voluntary behavior controlled by the mind, and involuntary behavior controlled by reflex mechanisms .
Dualist refers to anyone who believes that there are two (2) aspects to humans (1) the physical and (2) mental.
Likewise, Dualist is described as one who believes that a person consists of two (2) separate entities:
(1) a mind, which accounts for one's mental experiences and rationality, and
(2) a body, which functions according to the same biological and mechanical principles as do the bodies of nonhuman animals.
Duality of patterning refers to a feature of a communication system in which a small number of meaningless units can be combined into a large number of meaningful units.