Psychology RootsRetinal Disparity Did you know that the image your left eye perceives is not exactly the same as the image your right …
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Retina The retina is the area in the back of the eye that contains your rods and cones. Rods help you detect …
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Reticular Formation The reticular formation is a portion of the brain that is located in the central core of the brain stem. …
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Reticular Activating System The reticular activating system is a structure in the brain stem that is responsible for arousal and sleep. The …
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Resistance During psychoanalysis, there are many signs that the client and therapist are making progress and working toward identifying the root of …
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Repression (repressed memory) When explaining repression, Freud compared the process to “condemnation” and stated the following: “Let us take a model, an …
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Representative Sample When conducting a study, a researcher selects a relatively small group of participants (a sample) from an entire population of …
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Representative Heuristic A Representative Heuristic is a cognitive bias in which an individual categorizes a situation based on a pattern of previous …
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Replication Getting some results in one research study is nice, but as scientists we like to make sure of the findings. To …
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REM Sleep There are two types of sleep, REM and NREM (non-REM). REM, which is also known as paradoxical sleep, stands for …