RECOGNITION TECHNIQUE
Performed by readership-survey, a study method utilized in consumer psychology to determine consumer recognition of a product they profess to…
RECOLLECTION
The action of recalling past incidents and activities, an operation that takes place automatically in everyday life, as well as…
RECOMBINANT DNA
A DNA molecule possessing a segment which has been introduced by genetic recombination or other comparable method. Recombinant DNA laboratory…
RECONSTITUTION 1
An overhaul of perspectives and ambitions; often the result of completion of the grieving process by subjects when illness produces…
RECONSTRUCTION
During psychoanalysis, the review and examination of past events which have resulted in current emotional problems. Also, the analytical rebuilding…
RECONSTRUCTIVE PSYCHOTHERAPY
Mental therapy aimed at fundamental and comprehensive adjustment of a subject's personality by improving the subject's comprehension of personality growth,…
RECONSTRUCTIVE SURGERY
Specialization in the surgical field directed at reconstruction, enhancement, improvement, or replacement of defective or imperfect bodily structures. See also:…
RECOVERED MEMORY
Especially prominent in cases of sexual or physical abuse, a personal experience of recalling specific details of a previous, stressful…
RECOVERY TIME
The duration necessary for a neural unit (e.g. neuron, muscle cell) to recuperate from a reaction before it will respond…
RECOVERY, INC
For subjects having severe mental health issues, a self-help organization that directs focus to willpower exercises and methods which help…
RECUPERATIVE THEORY
A concept that the function of sleeping is to enable the physical body to recover internal homeostasis.
RECURRENT CIRCUIT
Neurons and synapses within a system that allow nerve impulses to make a total path, returning to the starting point.…
RECURRENT COLLATERAL INHIBITION
A system of negative feedback which allows Renshaw cells to inhibit a neuron by communicating through a branched axon loop…
RECURRING-FIGURES TEST
Memory test consisting of a succession of cards with geometric or senseless shapes; subject must attempt to recall whether a…
RECURRING-PHASE THEORIES
Theory which asserts that definite, distinct motifs will always predominate in group settings and dynamics.
RED NUCLEUS
Structure in the rostral midbrain, a subcortical center of the extrapyramidal motor system. Receives information from the cerebellum and is…
RED REFLEX
Reddish-orange reflection from the vascular retina observed when the retina is examined with an ophthalmoscope, the absence of which can…
REDINTEGRATION
The action of reorganizing psychological processes once they've been disorganized by mental dysfunction, especially in psychoses. Also refers in general…