PSYCHOLOGICAL ASSESSMENT
Interpretation and integration of gathered data to come to a conclusion regarding the psychological and physiological state of a particular…
PSYCHOPATHOLOGY
The scientific study of mental disorder(s). The field covers the theory, research, diagnosis and treatment of psychological diseases. It is…
RADICAL BEHAVIORISM
Radical behaviorism is the school of thought that behavior, rather than consciousness should be the primary topic for study when…
REACH ENVELOPE
The area that an operator of a machine or tool can reach while sitting or standing during the task. It…
REALISTIC THINKING
Realistic thinking is encapsulated thinking processes grounded in an honest appraisal of all relevant data and conditions in different situations.…
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…
PREVERBAL CONSTRUCT
Proposed first by U.S psychologist George A. Kelly (1905 to 1967), a preverbal construct was conceptualized before language capabilities were…