Category: R
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Rote learning
Verbal learning involving fixed mechanical sequences. There may be little or no attention paid to meaning or understanding.
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Rosenthal effect
The tendency for the results of an experiment to conform to the researcher’s expectations unless safeguards are implemented by minimizing bias.
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Rorschach psychodiagnostic inkblot test
A projective test in which the subject interprets 10 inkblots. Patterns of responses are analyzed as indices of anxiety, sexual conflict, hostility, and the like.
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Rorschach inkblot test
A projective technique that requires the person to look at inkblots and describe what is seen.
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Rooming-in program
A program in which the mother is allowed to keep her newborn baby in her hospital room most of the day rather than in a hospital nursery.
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Romberg sign
A tendency to sway when the eyes are closed and the feet are placed close together. The diagnostic indication of locomotor ataxia. A swaying of the body or falling when standing with the feet close together and the eyes closed, the result of loss of the joint position sense. Swaying of the patient when standing…
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Romantic love
An intense emotional feeling for another person based on self-constructed illusions about that person, limerance involves drastic mood swings, palpitations of the heart, and intrusive thinking about the person.
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Roman culture
In sexuality, a reference to orgies.
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Roller dressing
A strip of rolled up material of variable widths used for bandaging a wound or other open lesion.
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Role specification
The identified responsibilities and functions of a professional role which must be carried out through application of identified skills and knowledge role delineation.