REVERSAL DESIGN
Exploratory arrangement which tries to contravene confusing impressions of continuity, classification, and analysis in Latin squares by fluctuating baseline limitations…
RHETORICAL-QUESTION MESSAGE
Influential communication which contains rhetorical questions to encourage closer study of that communication. See also: message factors.
RICH INTERPRETATION
Method of studying the language of young children which goes beyond the bounds of the literal sense of words employed,…
RIGHT-LEFT DISORIENTATION
Linked to aphasia and other comprehension disorders, an affliction marked by a habitual tendency to incorrectly identify right from left…
RISK PERCEPTION
Risk as it is assessed through individual judgment as correlated with specific dangers. Past experiences, age, gender, and culture all…
RIVASTIGMINE
Marketed under the trade name Exelon, a parasympathomimetic or cholinergic agent in treatment of mild to moderate Alzheimer's-type dementia and…
RODS OF CORTI
A dual row of inflexible tower-like arrangements which make up an arch in the tunnel of Corti within the cochlea.
ROOTEDNESS
In Erich Fromm's psychoanalytic theory, imperative to originate relationships or links with other individuals which offer emotional safety and function…
ROTE LEARNING
Form of trying to learn wherein obtaining knowledge takes place by means of memory drills and repetition, in some cases…
RUBIN'S FIGURE
An equivocal shape which may be identified both as being a single goblet or as two faces in profile. Also…
RUMOR-INTENSITY FORMULA
Method that tries to clarify the reasons why certain gossip continues to persist or escalate while other ones dwindle and…
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…
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…