DELIRIANT
A substance that will bring about a state or delirium.
DELUSION OF POVERTY
The belief that a person has when they think they will soon be destitute.
DEMENTIA RATING SCALE
Used to measure the cognitive status of an adult. Comprises of 36 tasks if varying difficulty. Evaluates performance on subscales, attention, initiation-preservation, construction, conceptualisation...
DEMYELINATING DISEASE
A pathological condition like MS that results from the nerve sheaths being destroyed.
DENSITY FUNCTION
Function of mathematics defining the probablity of distribution.
DEPENDENCY COURT
US court dealing with child abuse issues and neglect.
DEPRESSION AFTER DELIVERY
The less common name for postpartum depression.
DEPTH PERCEPTION
The awareness we have of 3 dimensionality, distance to an object and its solidity.
DERIVED PROPERTY
Psychology. A property taken by part of a whole by virtue of its context.
DESCRIPTIVE BEHAVIORISM
The study of behaviour that states psychology should limit itself to descriptions of behaviour of organisms. See behaviourism- radical behaviourism.
