REORGANIZATION PRINCIPLE
The theory in gestalt psychology that new avenues of education and perception alter and disrupt older cognitive structures, leading to…
REPARAMETERIZATION
Redefining necessary or complete parameters within a model to reduce technical problems in the outcome of a general linear model.
REPEATED ACQUISITION
Procedure in which the first stages of learning are repeated while the sequence changes from one test period to the…
REPEATED MEASURES DESIGN
Framework for research wherein specific individuals are evaluated on specific dependent variables over time, during repeated episodes.
REPERTORY GRID
Interview technique using factor analysis for determination of ideographic measures of personality. Inferences about personality can be made, but it…
REPETITION
Duplicate display of educational materials which need to be learned or stored in memory.
REPETITION PRIMING
Initial presentation of a stimulus changes the way in which a subject will react to that stimulus at a later…
REPLICATION
One of the main tenets of the scientific method; repeating an experiment to ensure that the results can be attained…
REPLICATION PLANE
In attempting to replicate a study, a plane developed by crossing the study with its effect size.
REPRESENTATIONAL REDESCRIPTION
Mental process whereby a child can come up with a new description of representations which currently exist within the child's…
REPRESENTATIONAL SKILLS
Mental skills associated with comprehending surroundings in terms of mental representations.
REPRESENTATIONAL THOUGHT
Mental cognizance which relies on the use of symbols, including language, images, and other symbology.
REPRESENTATIONALISM
Also called representational realism, a philosophical concept broadly equivalent to the view of perception in the natural sciences. States that…
REPRESENTATIVE SAMPLING
Selection of a sample which correctly represents a total population. See also: random sampling.
REPRESENTATIVENESS
Correlation evident between a sample of a population and the population from which it is taken, meaning the sample accurately…
REPRESSION
Psychological act of excluding impulses or desires from consciousness. Exclusion of a specific event from the memory and having no…
REPRESSION PROPER
Called afterexpulsion by Sigmund Freud, a type of repression in which experiences or wishes that have been in the conscious…
REPRODUCTION
Biologically, production of new individuals from parental entities in perpetuation of the species. May be sexual or asexual in nature.