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RIGHT-LEFT DISORIENTATION

Linked to aphasia and other comprehension disorders, an affliction marked by a habitual tendency to incorrectly identify right from left

RISK METRICS

Any means by which the likelihood of falling victim to disease or disorder is presented.

RIVALRY

Act of competing as for profit, goal, or prize; state or condition of being a rival. See also: sibling rivalry.

ROD-CONE BREAK

Change in optical responsiveness that takes place in dark adaptation as the level of sensitivity of the retinal rods initially

ROLE OVERLOAD

Scenario wherein a person is expected to accomplish more than the person is able to do in a particular time

ROOT CAUSE ANALYSIS

Therapeutic approach which seeks to determine the fundamental element or elements of a recurrent issue by employing ever more particular

ROTATIONAL ERROR

Sketching or design misinterpretation which consists of flipping over a figure from the placement of the same figure in a

RUBBER

Slang term denoting a condom. See also: frotteurism.

RUMOR

News or item of knowledge of unidentified trustworthiness which is transferred from one person to another. See also: gossip.

RACE PSYCHOLOGY

An attempt to show an empirical difference between the races. It is now obsolete and has no basis.

RADICAL FEMINISM

A position in feminist theories with great influence in the latter part of the 20th and early 21st centuries. The

RANA PIPIENS

Used in clinical studies of neuropsychology and neurophysiology, a specie of frog.

RANDOM-EFFECTS MODEL

In statistics, a random-effect model depends on treating the effectiveness of treatments or experimental conditions as being randomly sampled from

RANK ORDER

The arrangement of a list of distinct items in order of magnitude.

RATE DEPENDENCY

As based in behavioral pharmacology, the magnitude of a drug's effect on response rate is dependent on the response rate

RATIONAL EMOTIVE BEHAVIOR THERAPY (REBT)

Rational emotive behavior therapy attempts to teach an individual through behavioral and cognitive techniques to replace self-defeating thoughts to achieve

RAVLT

The abbreviation for Rey Auditory Verbal Learning Test.

REACTIVATION OF MEMORY

The act of retrieving a memory. The retrieval may be triggered by stimuli or other conditions present when the original

READING DELAY

The lack of ability to read at the same competency as others for a given age.

REALISM

1. Doctrine in philosophy that objects have an existence, even in the absence of an observer. 2. An older doctrine