Glossary D
Glossary D
Descent with modification refers to the principle of evolution according to which current characteristics of species came into being through the gradual modification of earlier characteristics.
Descriptive adequacy refers to the extent to which a grammar can provide a structural description of a sentence.
Please see also Explanatory adequacy and Observational adequacy.
Descriptive behaviorism refers to Behaviorism that is positivistic in that it describes relationships between environmental events and behavior rather than attempting to explain those relationships. Skinner's approach to Psychology exemplified Descriptive behaviorism.
Descriptive norms refer to people's perceptions of how other people are actually behaving in a given situation, regardless of what behaviors are socially sanctioned
Descriptive research refers to a type of research that describes the relationship between variables rather than determining causation. It is a type of research that focuses on describing the behavior and the situation within which it occurs.