DEPLETIVE TREATMENT
Treatment involving weakening an organism by depleting it of a harmful substance.
DEPRIVATION INDEX
Measure of the degree of inadequacy in a child's intellectual environment.
DEREALIZATION
State characterised by a sense of unreality such as 'This can't be happening'.
DESIGN FOR THE AVERAGE
The principle that says all equipment that is designed for a person to use should suit the average and not…
DESYMBOLIZATION
A way to deprive symbols of accepted meanings and replacing them a distorted idea.
DETERMINISM
1. Philosophy. Taking the psoition that all events are the results of an antecedent cause or other force. See causality.…
DEVELOPMENTAL AGE (DA)
The measure of development that is expressed as an age thay may not match actual age.
DIALECTICAL OPERATIONS
Mechanisms that develop as a result of interactions between the environment and the individual.
DIFFERENTIAL EMOTIONS THEORY
A theory ythat proposes there is a large but limited number of emotions that appear without any social learning.
DIFFRACTION GRATING
A grate of glass or metal that splits light into different wavelengths.
DIMINISHED RESPONSIBILITY
A legal defense where a mental abnormality is used to reduce accountability for an act. Also called limited responsibility. See…