DUAL-STORE MODEL OF MEMORY
Concept that memory is a 2 stage process comprising short term and long term memory. Also called dual memory theory.
DURHAM RULE
Ruling stating an accused is not criminally responsible if his unlawful act was the product of mental disease or mental…
DYNAMIC CALCULUS
Model of motivation based on measurements of innate drives and sentiments.
DYSFUNCTIONAL FAMILY
A family showing impaired communication and relationships where members are unable to get close.
DYSNOMIA-AUDITORY RETRIEVAL DISORDER
A disorder of speech and language where problems are associated with naming objects and retrieving words and defects in auditory…
DYSPLASTIC TYPE
Person presenting traits leaning toward the intoversive and seclusive temperament. See constitutional type.
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…