FORNICATION
the term applied to the voluntary sexual intercourse between any two people who are not married to each other. The…
FRAME PROBLEM
the term applied to the technical difficulty that arises in artificial intelligence and computational models of human cognition that involves…
FREQUENCY DISCRIMINATION
the term that describes the ability to detect a change in the frequency of a pure tone. See also pitch…
FREGOLI'S PHENOMENON
the term for a syndrome where a person will identify different people as the persecutor as he thinks they can…
FRAME-OF-REFERENCE TRAINING
the name of the training given to people responsible for evaluating employees in order to improve performance and accuracy ratings.
FRENUM FRENZY
the name for the temporary state of wild excitement, mental agitation and violent behavior. It has been associated with mania…
FREUDIAN THEORY OF PERSONALITY
A general psychoanalytic concept of character and personality being the product of fixations and experiences that stem form early stages…
FREQUENCY TABLE
a numerical summary of the frequency of occurrences of the particular values of a measurement.
FREUD, SIGMUND
He pioneered psychoanalysis after studying neurology and turning to mental disorders like hysteria. He developed a method of free association…
FREQUENCY JUDGMENT
the term used for the person's judgement of how many times a stimulus is presented during a test. See word…
FRIENDSHIP
voluntary relationship between people that lasts a long time and those involved are concerned about each other. It develops from…
FRIENDSHIP NETWORK
the term that is applied to the interconnected relationships among a group of friends who provide social and emotional support…
FREUD, ANNA
Sigmund Freud's youngest daughter. Contributed to the theory and practice of psychoanalysis with her studies of defence mechanisms. Pioneer in…
FRENCH KISS
term for the type of sexual arousal where 2 people will kiss with their mouths open so that their tongues…
FLUENT SPEECH
This term is applied to speech that is essentially normal in quantity, stress, pitch, rhythm, and intonation. A person with…
LAW OF CONTRAST
The principle based on the assumption that individuals base their behavior on comparison of opposites not with sameness.