Glossary of terms used on this site
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reconstruction |
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process of bringing up old memories that might be distorted by new information |
reflex |
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unlearned, automatic response by an organism to a stimulus in the environment |
refractory period |
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time immediately following an orgasm during which an individual is incapable of experiencing another orgasm |
regression |
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ego defense mechanism in which a person confronted with anxiety returns to a more immature behavioral state |
rehearsal |
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repetition of information to be remembered |
reinforcement |
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relearning |
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learning information that was previously learned |
relearning |
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learning information that was previously learned |
reliability |
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consistency and reproducibility of a given result |
REM sleep behavior disorder (RBD) |
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sleep disorder in which the muscle paralysis associated with the REM sleep phase does not occur; sleepers have high levels of physical activity during REM sleep, especially during disturbing dreams |
replicate |
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repeating an experiment using different samples to determine the research’s reliability |
representative bias |
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faulty heuristic in which you stereotype someone or something without a valid basis for your judgment |
representative sample |
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subset of the population that accurately represents the general population |
repression |
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ego defense mechanism in which anxiety-related thoughts and memories are kept in the unconscious |
resistant attachment |
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characterized by the child’s tendency to show clingy behavior and rejection of the parent when she attempts to interact with the child |