DISCOURSE ROUTINE
The structured and ritualised conversation that takes place with certain expectations about participation.
DISCRIMINANT ANALYSIS
A statistical method where information from predictor variables allows maximal discrimination in a set of predefined groups.
DISORGANIZED OFFENDER
An offender who approaches his criminal activities in a frenzied and impulsive manner. Compare organised offender.
DISSOCIATIVE TRANCE DISORDER
A dissociative disorder where a person involuntarily alters their consciousness, identity, awareness or memory that results in distress and impairment.…
DISTORTING-VIDEO PROCEDURE
A way of documenting the accuracy of body to size perception by using a video image that is smaller or…
DISTRIBUTIVE JUSTICE
Belief that rules can be changed and punishments and rewards distributed according to relative standards.
DIVERSITY TRAINING
A personnel training program that helps employees deal effectively with different races, cultures, gender among people they meet at work.
DOMICILIARY CARE
Inpatient care provided for people who can't stay at home. See residential care.
DONDERS'S METHOD
The way to separate out hypothetical stages of mental processing by needing each participant to perform a set of reaction…
DOPPLER EFFECT
An apparent increase or decrease in wavelength when it moves away or closer to the observer.
DOUBTING MANIA
The obsessive and extreme feelings of uncertainty about the most obvious matters. Also called doubting madness.
DRAMATIZATION
1. Using attention getting behaviour as a defense for anxiety. 2. Used in psychoanalytic theory for expressing repressed desires.
DREAMY STATE
The brief altered state of conscious like a dream where the person can experience hallucinations.