Category: D

  • Delphi technique

    A program of sequential interrogations interspersed with information and opinion feedback.  

  • Deliverable

    In business, end product of a contract; specific product that the contractor agrees to deliver within the project period.  

  • Delinquency

    Antisocial or illegal behavior by a person under the legal age. Behaviour by a young person that would be judged a crime if carried out by an adult. Delinquency may also include non-criminal activities for example, running away from home, missing school lessons, drug or alcohol abuse, and unruly behaviour in public places. Juvenile delinquency…

  • Deleriants

    Volatile chemicals that include toluene (found in some glues), spot removers, trichloroethane, gasoline, some fluorocarbons (used in some aerosol sprays), benzene, acetone, ether, chloroform, and carbon tetrachloride. Inhalation of result in death from suffocation and asphyxiation and liver damage, kidney damage, lead poisoning, cardiac disturbance, bone marrow damage, brain damage, and other health problems.  

  • Delegation

    The process of assigning job activities and related authority to specific persons within the organization: delegate. In the PSRO program, the formal process by which a PSKO, based upon an assessment of the willingness and capability of a hospital or other health program to effectively perform PSRO review functions, assigns the performance of some (partial…

  • Delegate

    In politics and management, granting authority to conduct a particular function, delegation.  

  • Delay of reward gradient

    The learning theory term for finding that rewards and punishments lose their effectiveness the farther in time they are removed from the response in question, conditioning.  

  • Delay of reward

    The period of time between the occurrence of a response and the delivery of reinforcement, conditioning.  

  • Delayed speech

    A deficit in speaking proficiency where the person performs like someone much younger.  

  • De jure segregation

    The segregation of students on the basis of law, school policy, or a practice designed to accomplish such separation.