DECARCERATION
Where offenders are removed from a correctional facility to a community facility. See de-institutionalisation.
DALE'S LAW
the idea, now recognized as being inaccurate for a large number of neurons, which each terminal button of a neuron…
DC AMPLIFIER
a direct-current tool utilized to enhance the possible variation among a neural membrane so that the cortical current can be…
DEATH SYSTEM
the flexible trends by which a community mediates its union with death in effort to stay viable as a commune…
DECATASTROPHIZING
Technique used to people with irrational fears by exploring the reality of the situation.
DATE-RAPE DRUG
a drug which is slyly given to inhibit awareness or memory for the intent of carnal exploitation of the sufferer.…
DCNIONOLATOR N
with regard to demonology, the step-by-step analysis of the belief in evil entities and demons, often described in folktales and…
DEATH TABOO (DEATH TABU)
the virtue that death is so hazardous and scary a topic that someone ought not just abstain from contact with…
DECATHEXIS
Psychoanalytic theory. The withdrawal of libido from objects in the external world. Compare caihexis.
DALLENBACH STIMULATOR
introduced by American psychologist Karl M. Dellenbach, a tool used to supply regulated thermal stimulants to the skin.
DARWINIAN ALGORITHM
proposed by Charles Darwin, with regard to evolutionary developmental psychology, an inborn setting-specific mental program that grew to attain certain…
DEATH TRANCE
a condition of obvious paused motion in a person, marked by little physical movement
DECAY THEORY
The theory that states unless we keep using something we have remembered it will eventually go away. Also called trace-decay…