REFLEXIVE BEHAVIOR
Involuntary or unconscious reactions to stimuli which can serve as an avenue for Pavlovian response and conditioning. Compare to: planned…
REGULATION OF CONSCIOUSNESS
Action aimed at regulating or achieving a change in the state of consciousness. Includes pain circumvention and pleasure- or variety-seeking…
REJECTING-NEGLECTING PARENTING
Parenting style wherein the parent does not encourage emotional dependency and fails to improve their child's surroundings. Compare with: authoritarian,…
RELATIONSHIP ROLE
Identifiable role taken on by a member of a group in order to achieve interpersonal harmony within the group. Also…
RELEARNING METHOD
Regaining knowledge of material that has been learned and forgotten. Technique which allows for the measure of forgotten knowledge that…
RELIGIOUS DELUSIONS
Cognitive phenomena known in psychiatry. Beliefs and ideas found within the psychosis are held with certainty and maintained by the…
REMEMBER-KNOW PROCEDURE
Process for evaluating memory awareness, wherein the subject must ascertain the difference between remembering and knowing. Remembering allows the experience…
REMOTE-ASSOCIATION TEST
An examination testing creativity wherein the subject is prompted to come up with a fourth word that connects three otherwise…
REPARENTING
Pseudo-psychotherapy technique steeped in regressive therapy. Aims to correct psychological behaviors that may stem from neglect, trauma, abuse, or abandonment…
REPRESENTATIONAL CHANGE
A change in the beliefs surrounding an object or idea. When confronted with an item about which one belief was…
REPRESSION-SENSITIZATION
A defense mechanism employed to avoid the arrival of, and having to respond to, threatening stimuli.
RESIDUAL ATTENTION-DEFICIT DISORDER
A condition listed in DSM-III; child having been diagnosed with attention-deficit-hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) is diagnosed at a later date as…
RESOURCE DEFENSE POLYGYNY
Polygyny which may occur when a male defends territory with sufficient resources for more than one female to breed and…
RESPONSE CIRCUIT
A neural pathway which originates at the receptor and concludes at the effector.
RESPONSE STYLE
A set of responses generally emanating from dispositional factors instead of situational ones.
RESTORATION EFFECT
Circumstances wherein the mind instinctively restores facts or information absent in a stimulus. See also: closure.
RETEST RELIABILITY
Estimation of the accuracy of a test or measurement material, attained from the correlation of scores for the same individual…