REPRODUCTIVE SUPPRESSION
One or more individuals in a group are unable to procreate, despite having reached maturity. May be a result of…
RESIDENTIAL HABILITATION
Services in the home and community, offered to assist mentally handicapped persons or those who have a condition related to…
RESISTANT ESTIMATOR
Estimation of a parameter which is less susceptible to influence from outliers.
RESPONSE RATE
Measure of the amount of responses which take place during a particular time period. Also known as: response frequency.
RESTING POTENTIAL
Imbalance of electrical charge which is present between the interior of an electrically excitable nerve cell and its surrounding cells.…
RETARDED DEPRESSION
Obsolete designation for major depressive events which are marked by psychomotor retardation and loss of appetite.
RETRIEVAL CUE
Some aid utilized to direct memory recollection. See also: cue-dependent forgetting; ecphoria; encoding specificity principle.
RETROSPECTIVE INFORMATION
Recollections obtained when an individual is asked to remember behaviors, situations, and emotions from their distant past; considered as less…
REVERSED DEPENDENCY TRAP
Personal self-worth is determined by a parent to be tied to their child's achievements in school, sports activities, or another…
RH BLOOD-GROUP INCOMPATIBILITY
Reaction of antigen and antibodies occurring when Rh-positive blood is allowed to mix with Rh-negative blood when a transfusion is…
RIGHT TO DIE
A right to medical assistance in committing suicide, usually referring to patients who are terminally ill.
RINGELMANN EFFECT
Referring to a combination of social loafing and coordination loss within a group, where coordination loss refers to a lack…
RISPERIDONE
Second-generation, atypical antipsychotic, employed in the treatment of schizophrenia, schizoaffective disorder, mixed and manic states characterizing bipolar disorder, and irritability…
ROBUSTNESS
Potential of a hypothesis-testing or approximation technique to generate legitimate measurements, despite transgressions against the presuppositions upon which the strategy…
ROLE CONFUSION
Doubt regarding a particular social or group task. Gender role behavior patterns typically correlated with the opposite gender. See also:…