DARWINIAN FITNESS
proposed by Charles Darwin, the general achievement of a certain living being or genotype in generating viable offspring, which is…
DAUBERT HEARING
an official demonstration and evaluation of facts which is engaged in by American federal courts to establish whether or not…
DE LANGE'S SYNDROME
a hereditary disorder that presents in two ways, both being inclusive of average to serious cognitive retardation and corresponding to…
DEATH WISH
1. with regard to psychoanalytic theory, an aware or unaware desire that someone else, especially an authority figure, will meet…
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…
DANCE EPIDEMIC
a sensation wherein supposed abrupt and uncontrollable dancing stems throughout a large portion of a populace due to a contagion.
DAUERSCHLAF
noun. A kind of therapy wherein extended sleep in elicited via drugs. It has been employed in the remediation of…