FLASH CARD
This describes a small card, the size of a playing card with a picture or a word, or questions and…
FLAT AFFECT
a term used for the absence or apparent absence of emotional response to any situation or event. Also called emotional…
FESTINGER, LEON
This man was hired as a statistician for World War II and was involved in the training and selection of…
FORMAL OPERATIONS
Jean Piaget's theory of cognitive development. These are the fully developed intellectual functions of abstract thinking, logical processes, judgement and…
FORMAL REASONING
the reasoning that we use that entails using operations of formal logic. See deductive reasoning; logic.
FORM-FUNCTION DISTINCTION
a distinction between two fundamentally different ways of analysing language. One with respect to its structural properties or form and…
FORMES FRUSTES
a French term for the indefinite or the atypical symptoms of a disease. It is French for coarse forms.
FORMICATION
a term used to describe a very distressing sensation of ants and other insects crawling on a person's skin. It…
FORMAL ORGANIZATIONAL STRUCTURE
These are the official patterns of coordination and control, workflow, authority and communication that channel the activity of the members…
FORWARD CONDITIONING
Pavlovian conditioning. the pairing of 2 stimuli that are presented before the unconditioned stimulus. Also called forward pairing. Compare backward…
FORNICATION
the term applied to the voluntary sexual intercourse between any two people who are not married to each other. The…
FORMS OF ADDRESS
These are the terms that are applied to the way in which we address each other in a written or…
FORESHORTENING
an optical illusion we see that a line will appear to be shorter when viewed lengthwise.
FORM DISTORTION
a term that describes the change of an image that results from the optical qualities of the eye or an…