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…
RISKY SHIFT
Predilection for decisions made in a group setting to be less conservative, more experimental, and more dangerous than would be…
ROBUST ESTIMATOR, RESOCIALIZATION
Method of making it possible for people with cognitive dysfunctions to recommence suitable interpersonal routines and behavioral patterns, and commonly,…
ROLE CONFLICT
Anxiety or worry due to erratic or discordant goals related to the function of the individual in social or group…
ROLE-PLAYING RESEARCH
Study wherein a party takes on a role and strives to act as though the role actually belongs to them.…
ROUND-TABLE TECHNIQUE
Group-psychotherapy strategy employed in a medical center environment. Three adjoining areas are needed. In the first, the counselor and others…