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.
DAMAGE-RISK CRITERIA (DRC)
the degrees and durations of subjections to noise which are likely to inflict lasting auditory loss.
DARWINIAN REFLEX
a grasping reflex displayed by and observed in infants, specifically those just recently born.
DAUBERT TEST
an analysis employed in American federal courts, in supplement of the formative Frye test, to establish whether or not an…
DEATH-ANXIETY SCALES
Death-Anxiety is an overwhelming, pervasive fear of death that interferes with a person's daily functioning. This is from answers to…
DECENTERING
1. Techniques used to move from ventured thinking to open-minded thinking. 2. Dissolving the unity between self and identity. See…
DAUBERT V MERRELL DOW PHARMACEUTICALS INC
a case which generates an effective ruling by the U.S. Supreme Court in 1993 stipulating that Federal Rules of Evidence,…
DEAFFERENTATION
noun. The lacerating or retraction of axons or neurons that facilitate urges toward a specific nervous system construction.
DEATHBED ESCORTS AND VISIONS
The auditory and visual sights experienced by those near death of relatives coming to guide them through this life to…