| 1. | Racial antisemitism | Racial antisemitism is the belief that antisemitism, hatred or prejudice toward Jews, is justified and justifiable on racial and not religious grounds. It is asserted that Jews are a distinct More… 2.6 KB |
| 2. | Radical Psychology Network | The Radical Psychology Network (RadPsyNet) began in Toronto in 1993 when two dozen people attended a discussion at the American Psychological Association convention entitled "Will More… 1.2 KB |
| 3. | Radical behaviorism | is a philosophy developed by B. F. Skinner that underlies the experimental analysis of behavior approach to psychology. The term 'radical behaviorism' applies to a particular More… 1.0 KB |
| 4. | Radical therapy | a therapeutic approach that aims to bring about changes in the social stucture as a whole as contrasted with the standard individual, groups, family and community approaches. The proponents More… 0.3 KB |
| 5. | Radicalism | is adherence to radical views and principles in politics. The meaning of the term radical (from Latin radix, root) in a political context has changed since its first appearance in late 18th More… 0.8 KB |
| 6. | Radiophobia | is an abnormal fear of ionizing radiation, also used in the sense of fear of X-rays. The term is also used (polemically, not medically) to general opposition to the use of nuclear More… 0.5 KB |
| 7. | Rage | Psychologists say, it is a behavior that every person exhibits in some form. Rage is often used to denote hostile/affective/reactive aggression (as distinct from More… 5.4 KB |
| 8. | Random assignment | A method of assigning subjects to groups in an experiment that gives each subject an equal chance of being in each group. the procedure helps to ensure that groups are comparable before the More… 0.2 KB |
| 9. | Random sample | A sample is a subject chosen from a population for investigation. A random sample is one chosen by a method involving an unpredictable component. Random sampling can also refer to taking a More… 1.7 KB |
| 10. | Range | A rough statistical measure of the spread or variation in scores. The difference between the lowest and the highest scores in any distribution. |
| 11. | Rapid cycling bipolar disorder | Diagnosis given when a person has four or more cycles of mania and depression within a single year. |
| 12. | Rapid eye movement sleep | Is a normal stage of sleep characterized by rapid movements of the eyes. REM sleep is classified into two categories: tonic and phasic. The phenomenon of REM sleep and its association with More… 6.3 KB |
| 13. | Rapid-smoking treatment | A behavior therapy technique for reducing cigarette smoking in which the person is instructed to puff much more quickly than usual in an effort to make the whole experience an aversive one. More… 0.2 KB |
| 14. | Rapport | A close, trusting relationship, believed to be essential for effective psychotherapy. |
| 15. | Rapport congruency | is the Human tendency to form rapport with someone who seems to be portraying a common role, such as a friend. When someone acts like a friend or an enemy, the Human mind is more likely to More… 0.3 KB |
| 16. | Rashomon effect | is the effect of the subjectivity of perception on recollection, by which observers of an event are able to produce substantially different but equally plausible accounts of it. It is named More… 0.5 KB |
| 17. | Rational choice theory | Also known as rational action theory, is a framework for understanding and often formally modeling social and economic behavior. It is the dominant theoretical paradigm in microeconomics. It More… 1.9 KB |
| 18. | Rational temperament | The Rational temperament comprises the following role variants: Architect, Mastermind, Inventor, and Fieldmarshal. Rationals trust reason implicitly, relying on objective observations and More… 1.1 KB |
| 19. | Rational-emotive therapy - (RET) | A cognitive-restructuring-behavior therapy introduced by Albert Ellis and based on the assumption that much disordered behavior is rooted in absolutistic demands that people make upon More… 0.3 KB |
| 20. | Rationality | Rationality as a term is related to the idea of reason, a word which following Webster's may be derived as much from older terms referring to thinking itself as from giving an account More… 1.4 KB |
| 21. | Rationalization | A defense mechanism in which a plausible reason reason is unconsciously invented by the ego to protect itself from confronting the real reason for an action, thought, or emotion. For More… 0.3 KB |
| 22. | Raw data | is a term for unprocessed data, it is also known as primary data. It is a relative term. Raw data can be input to a computer program or used in manual analysis procedures such as gathering More… 2.1 KB |
| 23. | Raymond Cattell | (20 Mar 1905 – 2 Feb 1998) was a British and American psychologist known for his exploration of a wide variety of substantive areas in psychology. These areas included: the basic dimensions More… 2.0 KB |
| 24. | Raymond Dean | Raymond Dean (born September 24, 1946 in New York) is the George and Frances Ball Distinguished Professor of Neuropsychology and professor of psychology at Ball State University. His More… 3.1 KB |
| 25. | Raymond Moody | (born June 30, 1944) is a psychologist and medical doctor. He is most famous as an author of books about life after death and near-death experiences (NDE), a term which he coined in 1975. More… 1.1 KB |
