Glossary D

Descriptive models of thinking refer to models that depict the processes people actually use in making decisions or solving problems.

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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

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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.

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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.

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

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