Glossary R
Glossary R
Recusant means refusing to submit to authority; dissenting. It also refers to a person who refuses to obey authority.
Recusant refers one of the Roman Catholics during 16th and 18th century who refused to attend services of the Church of England and were punished for it.
Reflex refers to an innate, unlearned, consistent, automatic response to a stimulus; a mechanism that enables a specific environmental event to elicit a specific response. Example of a reflex is an eyeblink.
Moreover, Reflex is a natural, simple, involuntary motor reaction or response to an external stimulus that causes a physical response. Also an unlearned response induced by specific stimuli that have biological relevance to the organism.
Refractory period refers to the time from last orgasm to the next beginning of excitement
Rehabilitation refers to a strategy of punishment associated with positivist approaches to criminology.