Glossary D

Dynamic assessment refers to an approach to assessing intelligence that evaluates how well individuals learn new material when an examiner provides them with competent instruction.

Dynamic equilibrium something that occurs when all of the applied and inertial forces acting on the moving body are in balance, resulting in movement with unchanging speed or direction.

Deutsch: Dynamisches Gitter / Español: Rejilla Dinámica / Português: Rede Dinâmica / Français: Grille Dynamique / Italiano: Griglia Dinamica /

Dynamic lattice refers to the representation in a chart or diagram of the relationships among ergs, sentiments, and attitudes.

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Dynamic optical demarcation when an animal uses a special signalling device in a stereotypical movement (the waving of the fiddler crabs claw) to alert other members of its species.

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Dynamic perimetry is defined as a procedure used to measure the visual field, in which a small visual target is gradually brought into the field of vision

Dynamic psychology is defined as the brand of Psychology suggested by Woodworth that stressed the internal variables that motivate organisms to act.

Dynamic social impact theory refers to Bibb Latané’s extension of Social impact theory, which assumes that influence is a function of the strength, the immediacy, and the number of sources present, and that this influence results in consolidation, clustering, correlation, and continuing diversity in groups that are spatially distributed and interacting repeatedly over time.

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Dynamic stretching is defined as stretching that involves controlled movement.

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