FOOTEDNESS
a term that is used for the preferential use of one foot rather than the other, for example, in kicking.
FORAMINOTOMY
the surgical enlargement of one of the foramina between adjacent vertebrae that spinal nerves pass. It is done by enlarging…
FORAMEN MAGNUM
the large opening at the base of the skull that the spinal cord and left and right vertebral arteries and…
FORCE FIELD
a term used in field theory for the totality that exists in any instant of all coexisting factors that will…
FOOD CACHING
a term applied to animals that store food for later consumption. Some birds will save enough food to eat over…
FLUMAZENIL
the drug that is used to reverse the symptoms of an overdose of benzodiazepine and to reverse anaesthesia. It displaces…
FOLIE A CINQ
a shared psychotic disorder where 5 members of the same family have similar or identical delusions. It is a French…
FORCED TREATMENT
Term that is applied to any therapy that is given to a person against their will. It often refers to…
FORCED-RESPONSE TEST
This term is applied to a multiple choice quiz where a person will choose one of the responses to the…
FOREGROUNDING
Technique of high lighting certain aspects of a complex stimulus to make them the focus of our attention. A speaker…
FORCED COPULATION
the copulation of a male with an unwilling female seen in animals and insects. The larger male will monopolise the…
FOLIE A GROUPE
This term is applied to a group of people that have an irrational but validated idea like a group of…
FORCED-CHOICE TEST
term that is used in a signal detection test where several intervals are given with only one having the signal…
FOREPERIOD
a term that is seen in reaction time experiments and is the pause seen between the ready signal and the…
FOREIGNER TALK
the term applied to the way some people will talk to a foreigner. They will use short sentences, simple grammar…
FORENSIC SOCIAL WORK
Application of social work principles and techniques to legal issues or situations involving the law, civil and criminal. It includes…
FORCED DISTRIBUTION
a rating system where the raters must use a prescribed number of entries for each level of the rating scale…
FLUORESCEIN ANGIOGRAPHY
. A fluorescent compound, fluorescein, is injected into the systemic circulation; as it flows through the blood vessels on the…
JONESTOWN MASS SUICIDE
A small group of members attacked and killed members of a congressional fact finding delegation from the United States, Jones…
FMOX STATISTIC
the name that is given to the statistic used for testing the hypothesis of homogeneity of variance in k independently…