Glossary D

Glossary D

Descriptive norm refers to a consensual standard that describes how people typically act, feel, and think in a given situation.

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.

Descriptive research strategy refers to a general approach to research that involves measuring a variable or set of variables as they exist naturally to produce a description of individual variables as they exist within a specific group.

Descriptive rules is defined as rules that describe speakers' linguistic knowledge

Descriptive Statistics refers to statistical procedures that provide a summary picture of patterns in data.

Descriptive theory is defned as a theory that simply attaches names to events without necessarily explaining why or how the events have occurred.

Descriptive-diagnosis approach refers to one of four (4) approaches to intuitive-logical clinical thinking at Step 2 of the inverted pyramid method of Case conceptualization. Using Descriptive-diagnosis approach, the counselor looks for mental disorders. Clinical thinking using this approach leads toward inferences and treatment planning based on the diagnoses or disorders identified.