RATIONAL PSYCHOTHERAPY
A therapeutic approach developed primarily by Albert Ellis, based on the view that emotional difficulties are due to faulty, illogical…
RABIES ENCEPHALITIS
Inflammation of the brain caused by rabies virus transmitted through an animal bite.
RADICAL BEHAVIORISM
Radical behaviorism is the school of thought that behavior, rather than consciousness should be the primary topic for study when…
RAMP MOVEMENT
Also referred to as smooth movement, ramp movement is slow, sustained movement generated in the basal ganglia.
RANDOM-DIGIT DIALING
Used in telephone sampling, the researcher selects the area code and then allows software to generate the last digits randomly.
RANGE OF MINUS JUDGMENTS
Arrived at by subtracting the lowest judgment from the highest, this range measures perceptual judgments in a psychological experiment.
RASCH MODEL
Proposed by Danish statistician Georg Rasch, the simples mode for the item response theory consisting of only a single parameter:…
RATIO STRAIN
Ratio strain occurs on a subject when long intervals of time are scheduled between reinforcements.
RAUWOLFIA DERIVATIVES
A class of alkaloids from the same genus of plants as Hindu snakeroot. They are sedatives and anti-hypertensives.
REACTIONAL BIOGRAPHY
In employment interviews, a reactional biography gathers an applicant's accounts of past employment experiences. These accounts can shed a great…
READINESS TEST
A testing technique with the intent of predicting how well an individual is prepared to benefit from instruction in a…
REAL-SIMULATOR MODEL
An experimental design where some participants in the model are instructed to simulate a psychological state while others in the…
REBOXETINE
A norepinephrine reuptake inhibitor. The drug has little to no effect on neurotransmission of serotonin, dopamine, acetylcholine or histamine.
RECEPTIVITY
The period of time in which a female is most responsive to sexual overtones from a male. Receptivity defines her…
RECIPROCAL REGULATION
An adaption of behavior by a person or persons to changed conditions.
RECOMPENSATION
An improvement in the capacity of a living thing to adjust to the changing environmental conditions in order to minimize…
RECRUITMENT
In regard to neurophysiology, a rise in the quantity of neurons that react when a stimulus is sustained or amplified…
RED-GREEN RESPONSES
A theory of color vision wherein reactions of some retinal receptors are excitatory, whilst others are inhibitory to an identical…
REENACTMENT
Reliving past events in an attempt to restore the original emotions present during the initial event. See also: abreaction.