Rod a type of retinal

Risk-taking

Risk factor

Retinotopic map

Retinex theory

Retinal receptor

Retinal ganglion cells

Results

Research participants

Representativeness

Representational understanding

Replication

copying a piece of research in order to ensure that the results are a reliable finding.

also referred to as insight, the capacity to understand how things work and thereby choose or modify objects that meet precise criteria for tool use, in advance of undertaking a task.

one of three types of heuristic, according to which a person, thing or event will be judged to be a member of a class whose stereotypical members it closely resembles, regardless of other information. See also availability, anchoring and adjustment.

people who agree to take part in a research project.

the outcome of a research project, or the section of a research report which gives a factual description of that outcome.

the output stage of the retina and the first stage of processing at which action potentials are generated. Retinal ganglion cells have characteristic circular

the light sensitive cells in the retina where light is converted into a neural response. In human beings this is comprised of a mixture of rods and cones.

a theory of colour vision proposing that the amount of light in the image is first analysed separately at different wavelengths and that the resulting maps of the image are subsequently compared.

the orderly projection of neurones from the retina so that the spatial structure of the image is preserved at the destination, for example, nearby cells in the primary visual cortex have receptive fields in nearby regions of the image.

the element of risk involved in any exposure to a potentially harmful agent, for example that of the developing fetus to developmental abnormality, through the use by the mother of harmful drugs, cigarettes, alcohol during pregnancy.

a form of conscious human behaviour influenced by a calculation of risk against possible achievement or reward to be gained, which reaches its peak amongst young men during later adolescence.

Robber's Cave

a term for the study of group behaviour among children, based on the work of Muzafer and Carolyn Sherif, who set up a classic series of natural experiments at summer camps in the 1950s where they identified the strengths and conflicts of a miniature society and set about resolving the conflicts that had been created.

receptor that is active in dim lighting (scotopic) conditions. See also cone.

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