REALITY CONFRONTATION
An act on behalf of the therapist in which the client is asked to consider the possibilty that he or…
RECOGNITION
A sense of familiarity when encountering people, events or objects that have previously been encountered. It also pertains to material…
REFLECTED APPRAISALS
Feedback for evaluation which a subject acquires from other individuals. See also: looking-glass self.
RELATIONAL LEARNING
Understanding how to differentiate between stimuli using relational properties rather than absolute properties.
REMOTE ASSOCIATION
Correlation among items in a list or series, along with another item which is not adjacent to the list.
RESERVE CAPACITY
Discrepancy between a subject's maximal ability to perform a given psychological exercise and the actual performance of that exercise.
RESPONSE SUPPRESSION
Lessening in the probability of a response owing to an experimental process.
RETROGRADE AMNESIA
Loss of ability to recall events which happened just prior to the onset of amnesia. See also: temporal gradient. Compare…
ROBUSTNESS
Potential of a hypothesis-testing or approximation technique to generate legitimate measurements, despite transgressions against the presuppositions upon which the strategy…
ROTE RECALL
Exact recall of information which has been saved entirely; for example, an address, color pattern, or musical piece. See also:…
SAVINGS SCORE
Amount by which time or effort is reduced in reacquiring knowledge after it has been forgotten. See also: relearning method.
SCREE PLOT
Plot, in descending order of magnitude, of the eigenvalues of a correlation matrix. In the context of factor analysis or…
SECULAR TREND
Long-term upward or downward trend in numbers, as opposed to a smaller cyclical variation with a periodic and short-term duration.
SELECTIVE REARING
Experiential paradigm wherein an organism is brought up from arrival or from the time that the eyes open under circumstances…
PREVOCATIONAL TRAINING
Designed as a prepatory training, prevocational training does not concentrate on job-specific skills, but rather attempts to enhance a subject's…
PRIMARY TASK
Ergonomically speaking, when one has a multi-task assignment, the primary task is the one that takes priority. That is, it…
PROBE TECHNIQUE
A probe technique uses a memory test to ascertain whether a particular item was included in a list of items…
PROGRAM INTEGRITY
Program integrity defines the extent to which it (the program) has actually been delivered.
PROTOCOL ANALYSIS
A method that calls for subjects to think out loud during the performance of a task. Written transcripts are then…
PSYCHIC ENERGY
Theoretically, the dynamic force behind all mental functioning. This Freudian theory states that the basic sources of said energy are…