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  2. Reverse psychology - Wikipedia

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    Reverse psychology is often used on children due to their high tendency to respond with reactance, a desire to restore threatened freedom of action. Questions have, however been raised about such an approach when it is more than merely instrumental, in the sense that "reverse psychology implies a clever manipulation of the misbehaving child". [5]

  3. Retching - Wikipedia

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    Retching (also known as dry heaving) is the reverse movement (retroperistalsis) of the stomach and esophagus without vomiting. [1] It can be caused by bad smells or choking, or by withdrawal from certain medications, or after vomiting has completed.

  4. Reversal theory - Wikipedia

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    Reversal theory is a structural, phenomenological theory of personality, motivation, and emotion in the field of psychology. [1] It focuses on the dynamic qualities of normal human experience to describe how a person regularly reverses between psychological states, reflecting their motivational style, the meaning they attach to a situation at a given time, and the emotions they experience.

  5. Retroperistalsis - Wikipedia

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    Retroperistalsis is the reverse of the involuntary smooth muscle contractions of peristalsis.It usually occurs as a precursor to vomiting.Local irritation of the stomach, such as bacteria or food poisoning, activates the emetic center of the brain which in turn signals an imminent vomiting reflex.

  6. Physiology - Wikipedia

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    Physiology (/ ˌ f ɪ z i ˈ ɒ l ə dʒ i /; from Ancient Greek φύσις (phúsis) 'nature, origin' and -λογία () 'study of') [1] is the scientific study of functions and mechanisms in a living system.

  7. Homeostasis - Wikipedia

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    Low pressure in the arteries, causes the opposite reflex of constriction of the arterioles, and a speeding up of the heart rate (called tachycardia). If the drop in blood pressure is very rapid or excessive, the medulla oblongata stimulates the adrenal medulla , via "preganglionic" sympathetic nerves , to secrete epinephrine (adrenaline) into ...

  8. Reverse pharmacology - Wikipedia

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    Forward and reverse pharmacology approaches in drug discovery. In the field of drug discovery, reverse pharmacology [1] [2] [3] also known as target-based drug discovery (TDD), [4] a hypothesis is first made that modulation of the activity of a specific protein target thought to be disease modifying will have beneficial therapeutic effects.

  9. Retrograde signaling - Wikipedia

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    Retrograde signaling in biology is the process where a signal travels backwards from a target source to its original source. For example, the nucleus of a cell is the original source for creating signaling proteins.