PSYCHODYNAMIC APPROACH
An approach to treatment that features psychological and psychiatric factors when examining unconscious motives in the molding of personality, attitudes…
PSYCHOLOGICAL UNIVERSAL
Any of the psychological features recognized across diverse cultures. That is, psychological features that are "universal". They are broken down…
PSYCHOTHERAPY
Psychotherapy is a service provided by a trained psychotherapist in an effort to recognize and treat mental, emotional and behavioral…
QUASI-EXPERIMENTAL RESEARCH
A form of research where the investigator has no control over the independent variable, but has power over how the…
READING SPAN
The amount of text (written or typed) that a subject can absorb during a single movement of the eyes over…
RECEPTOR SITE
A region in the specialized membrane on the surface of the cell containin receptor molecules.
REDINTEGRATION
The action of reorganizing psychological processes once they've been disorganized by mental dysfunction, especially in psychoses. Also refers in general…
REGRESSION ANALYSIS
A technique for correlating the computation of the most likely value of one variable from the known value of another.…
RELIABILITY OF COMPOSITES
Reliability of the various components of a test or measurement device. See also: composite reliability.
REPRESENTATIONAL THOUGHT
Mental cognizance which relies on the use of symbols, including language, images, and other symbology.
RETICULAR FORMATION
Comprehensive network of connections containing nerve cell bodies and fibers in the brain stem. Originating in the medulla oblogata and…
RIBOT'S LAW 1
Theory which states that the newest memories are the most susceptible to interruption from brain damage.
ROLE REVERSAL
Strategy intended for treatment and instructive reasons wherein someone swaps roles with somebody else, so as to encounter different thinking…
SALIENCE HYPOTHESIS
The standard principle of perceptual experience dependent upon which particularly salient stimuli (items, individuals, meanings, and so forth) should be…
SCIENTIFIC PSYCHOLOGY
Psychological information, methods, and approaches which have been produced and authenticated using the scientific method, and rely on objective assessment…
SECONDARY MEMORY (SM)
Memory that maintains numerous things fairly perpetually, as opposed to primary memory. Originally denoting dual-storage memory models prior to its…
SELECTIVE AGENT
Aspect of the surroundings which applies selection pressures, leading to natural selection.
PRIMARY DATA
The data first obtained through observation or experiment prior to analysis and statistical work up.