Category: R

  • Review

    In education, a process of returning to knowledge previously learned, usually for the purpose of understanding relationships and significance to new knowledge to be learned. The processes of examination and evaluation.  

  • Reversion therapy

    Conversion therapy.  

  • Reverse tolerance

    An increased sensitivity to a drug the more or longer that it is taken. When a person needs less of a drug, such as alcohol, to get the same effects. A condition in which less and less alcohol causes intoxication; it occurs during the late stage of alcoholism.  

  • Reversal design

    An experimental design in which behavior is measured during a baseline period, during a period of treatment, during a period in which the baseline conditions are restored, and finally, during a reintroduction of the treatment.  

  • Revealed-differences technique

    A study of family behavior by observing its members in a laboratory as they try to agree on an answer to a particular question.  

  • Reuptake

    A process by which a neurotransmitter is removed from a synapse by being taken back up into the cell from which it was released.  

  • Retroversion

    The tipping of an entire organ backward. The fact of sloping backwards. Backward displacement or inclination of an organ, esp. in reference to the uterus, the upper part of which may be tilted backward in relation to the lower part or cervix, which is pointed toward the pubic bone. The backward inclination of an organ,…

  • Retrospective research design

    A method of measuring age-related change by using people’s memory of events as data. A research design in which people are asked to recall past events that are recorded as variables under study.  

  • Retrospective evaluation

    Used to assess how much learning has taken place and what experiences have been significant in establishing the individual’s present health behavior provides information for judging a historical learning perspective.  

  • Retroperitoneal

    Behind the peritoneum and outside the peritoneal cavity (e.g., the kidneys).