re|gres|sion

re|gres|sion
re|gres|sion «rih GREHSH uhn», noun.
1. the act of going back; backward movement.
2. Psychology. the reversion of a person to an earlier stage or way of thinking, feeling, or acting, as a way of trying to escape difficult problems by assuming the characteristics of childhood: »

In regression the individual retreats from reality to a less demanding personal status—one which involves lowered aspiration and more readily accomplished satisfactions (James C. Coleman).

3. Biology. the reversion of offspring to a less developed state or form or to an average type, such as a tendency of children of tall parents to be shorter than their parents.
4. Statistics. the tendency of one variable that is correlated with another to revert to the general type and not to equal the amount of deviation of the second variable.

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