Glossary

Category: R

  • Retention processes

    In social learning theory, the information remembered from observation that can be replicated at a later time.  

  • Retarded ejaculation

    Ejaculatory incompetence. The inability of a male to achieve orgasm despite sexual arousal and stimulation, often after 30 min of sexual activity.  

  • Resuscitation

    Artificial resuscitation. The act of reviving someone who seems to be dead, by making him or her breathe again and restarting the heart. An attempt to restore heartbeat and breathing in a person who is apparently dead or at least has stopped breathing. Act of reviving a person or returning him/her to consciousness through the…

  • Restructuring

    A reorganization of a problem, often rather sudden, which seems to be a characteristic of creative thought. Reorganization of a corporation (a hospital, for example) in order better to handle new functions and enterprises. The restructuring may involve the creation of several corporations where there was only one, consolidation or merger of corporations, establishment of…

  • Restrained-eating hypothesis

    The theory that the oversensitivity of obese persons to external cues is caused by the disinhibition of conscious restraints on eating, externality hypothesis; set-point hypothesis.  

  • Restrain

    To prohibit from action, to enjoin.  

  • Restorative rehabilitation

    Treatments to return a person to his or her predisease or preinjury condition with little or no handicap remaining, supportive rehabilitation; palliative rehabilitation.  

  • Resting pulse rate

    A person’s pulse rate while at rest. The normal pulse rate for a person whose fitness average is about 70 beats/min. The less a person is fit, the more likely the resting pulse rate will be higher. A physically fit person usually has a resting pulse rate below 70 beats/min.  

  • Responsible drug use

    The use of any drug in such a way as to minimize the risk of negative consequences of such use.  

  • Responsibility

    The obligation to perform assigned activity. Somebody or something which a person or organisation has a duty to take care of. The blame for something bad which has happened. The position of having to explain to somebody why something was done. Responsibility for professional actions. The ability to distinguish between right and wrong. Legally, it…