DECONSTRUCTION
Critical analysis. Mainly of literary text where there can be no reference for language and no grounding for truth claims.…
DEEP SLEEP
A stage of the sleep cycle where arousal thresholds are high. See also wave sleep.
DEFENSIBLE SPACE
The set of guidelines used to design and plan settings to reduce crime. See territoriality.
DEINDIVIDUATION
An experiential state with a loss of awareness, changed perceptions and atypical behaviour.
DELAYED FEEDBACK
A delay in feedback from the senses that can guide or monitor motor movements.
DELIRIOUS STATE
A clinical state showing features of delirium often from taking drugs, withdrawal from alcohol, hypoxia, head trauma.
DELUSION OF REFERENCE
A false conviction that actions and eventshave a relation to yourself. See idea of reference.
DENSITY-INTENSITY HYPOTHESIS
The explanation of psychological reactions to overcrowding where unpleasant situations are worse and pleasant situations are better.
DEPENDENCY NEEDS
Where personal needs must be satisfie by others such as love, shelter, food, warmth. See co-dependency- morbid dependency.
DEPTH PSYCHOLOGY
The approach that focuses on our unconscious mental processes, personality, cfreativity, attitudes and lifestyle.
DESCRIPTIVE NORMS
The socially determined standards or morms describing how people react , feel and think in any given situation. Compare injunctive…