RANGE EFFECT
In tracking, the tendency of a subject to make compensating movements too large when the target is small and too…
REACTIVE DEPRESSION
A major depressive episode brought on by an apparent event or situation such as the loss of a job or…
RECOMBINATION
The trading of hereditary components between paired chromosomes during the course of the development of sex cells (sperm or ova).…
RELATIVE DEPRIVATION
A feeling of deprivation occurring when one compares themselves to another, regardless of objective reality. Se also: social comparison theory.
REPEATED MEASURES DESIGN
Framework for research wherein specific individuals are evaluated on specific dependent variables over time, during repeated episodes.
RESISTANCE
Act or instance of resisting; having the ability to resist. In psychology, the process by which the ego refuses to…
RESTITUTION
Action taken in which something is rightfully restored which had been lost or stolen; making good or compensating for a…
REVERSAL LEARNING
Discriminating between two opposing options, wherein the rewarded responses have been reversed after having been correlated with two different stimuli.
ROKEACH VALUE SURVEY (RVS)
Tool which evaluates a subject's moral to enable them to figure out what is of utmost significance in their lives…
SCHACHTER-SINGER THEORY
Argument posed wherein the experience and identification of specific emotional conditions are a function of physiological arousal, as well as…
SEATTLE LONGITUDINAL STUDY
Extensive continuing analysis of adult intellect and intellectual operation using the Primary Mental Abilities evaluation (see: primary abilities) and employing…
PRIMAL DEPRESSION
Early childhood depression supposedly brought on by distant or missing parents. The expression is today considered obsolete.
PRIMITIVE DEFENSE MECHANISM
Psychoanalytically, the theory of protection against anxiety connected with the death instinct. Primitive defense mechanism have been identified as such…
PROBLEM SOLVING
Problem solving is a process for individual's to overcome a specific problem. That process, simply, begins at a starting point…
PROJECTION NEURON
Also referred to as a Golgi Type 1 neuron, a projection neuron contains a long axon is distinguished by a…