FORWARD CONDITIONING
Pavlovian conditioning. the pairing of 2 stimuli that are presented before the unconditioned stimulus. Also called forward pairing. Compare backward…
FORWARD SELECTION
the variable selection or model building technique that is used in multiple regressions where variables are added to the model…
FORMES FRUSTES
a French term for the indefinite or the atypical symptoms of a disease. It is French for coarse forms.
FORM DISTORTION
a term that describes the change of an image that results from the optical qualities of the eye or an…
FOSTER HOME
1. A home that is temporary for a child away from his original family. 2. A home for people with…
FIELD EXPERIMENT
an experiment that is not conducted inside a laboratory but is done outside in the real world setting. Participants are…
FRACTIONAL ANTEDATING GOAL RESPONSE
the name given to a reaction that develops progressively earlier in conditioning a series of responses and may become a…
FOUR-DAY WEEK
the name that is applied to the working week that has only 4 working days of 10 hours rather than…
FORM QUALITY
a term in Gestalt psychology where the emergent feature makes a thing recognisable even after it has been transformed.
FLUCTUATION OF PERCEPTION
the tendency for perception to alternate between competing stimuli that cannot be integrated or synthesized with each other. See bi-stable…
FLUENT SPEECH
This term is applied to speech that is essentially normal in quantity, stress, pitch, rhythm, and intonation. A person with…
FIGHT-FLIGHT REACTION
the emotional response a person has to an emergency that is designed to allow us to stand and fight or…
FRACTIONAL FACTORIAL DESIGN
an experimental design where some higher order interactions are intentionally confounded with lower order interactions to reduce the total number…
FRAGILE X CHROMOSOME
the name that is given to a genetic defect affecting mainly males that is associated with mental retardation. The long…
FRACTIONAL REPLICATION DESIGN
the name of an experimental design where each level of each independent variable is not assessed in combination with every…
FOSSILIZATION
a term in second language acquisition where the person's skills fall short of attaining native proficiency in the language. See…
KOCHER-DEBRE-SEMELAIGNE SYNDROME
It is associated with cretinism and mental retardation in some cases, it is a disorder of infants and children marked…
FOUR-CARD SELECTION PROBLEM
the name of a problem solving task using four cards, each has a letter on one side and a number…