Category: R
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Recognition memory
The capacity to discriminate new from old information. An indication of intelligence.
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Recognition
A task in which a stimulus has to be identified as having been previously encountered. The ability to identify a recently encountered item; the memory of a person, place, or thing as something familiar.
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Recitation method
A teacher-centered approach that requires the learner to memorize health facts that are recited to the rest of the class. It has very little value in indicating student comprehension.
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Reciprocity of parent-child relations
Mutual influence between parent and child. In contrast to views that influence is unidirectional from parent to child.
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Reciprocity (Norm)
The expectation that good and not harm will be returned to those who have provided benefit.
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Reciprocate
To return feelings and attitudes that are expressed about a person.
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Reciprocal stretch
A flexibility technique whereby a muscle group is isometrically contracted immediately prior to passive stretching of their antagonists takes place.
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Reciprocal role theory of identification
The theory that sex roles are learned not through identification with same sex models but from persons who interact with boys and girls in role-differentiated ways.
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Reciprocal inhibition psychotherapy
A conditioning approach to habit change using systematic desensitization reciprocal inhibition.
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Reciprocal determinism
In social learning theory, the continuous reciprocal interaction among a person’s behavior, personality, and environment.