FRONTAL LOBE
one of the four main lobes of each cerebral hemisphere lying in front of the central sulcus. It is concerned…
FRONTAL EYE-FIELD LESION
lesion from surgery or injury in the anterior part of the brain to the motor area that is used for…
FRUSTRATION TOLERANCE
the ability a person has to endure the tension and to preserve equanimity when met with obstacles. It is a…
FRUSTRATION
1. thwarting of impulses and actions. 2. Emotional state when thwarting happens. 3. Psychoanalytic theory. Damming up of psychic energy…
FRUSTRATION-AGGRESSION HYPOTHESIS
States that frustration produces aggression and aggression results from prior frustrations. Later noted by Neal Miller that frustration leads to…
FRONTAL CORTEX
the name of the most anterior part of the cerebral cortex. See also prefrontal cortex.
FREUD, SIGMUND
He pioneered psychoanalysis after studying neurology and turning to mental disorders like hysteria. He developed a method of free association…
FULL INCLUSION
The practice of providing children with disabilities with services in their home school and placing them in a regular classroom…
FUGITIVE LITERATURE
These are the research findings that have not been published in archival sources, dissertations, papers presented at meetings, papers either…
FRUSTRATIVE NONREWARD HYPOTHESIS
a proposition that consistently withholding reinforcement of responses during operant or instrumental conditioning leads to an internal state of frustration…
FUNCTION WORD
a word with little or no meaning when by itself but plays an important role in our language. Examples are…
FREUDIAN THEORY OF PERSONALITY
A general psychoanalytic concept of character and personality being the product of fixations and experiences that stem form early stages…
FULFILLMENT
the term for the actual or felt satisfaction of needs and desires and the attainment of aspirations. See also wish…
FUNCTIONAL AMNESIA
a psychiatric disorder with amnesia for autobiographical events. Episodic memory is lost about yourself as is semantic memory when a…
FUNCTION ALLOCATION
a systematic process of applying knowledge and ergonomics to determine the function of a system for human operators and those…
FUNCTIONAL AGE
term for a person's age that is determined as a measure of their functional capabilities that have been indexed to…
FREUDIAN SLIP
an unconscious error or an oversight in speaking, writing and actions that is caused by the breakthrough of unacceptable impulses…
FORENSIC PSYCHIATRY
Psychiatry. Deals with abnormal behaviour and mental disorders that relate to legal issues like trials and hearings. It mainly deals…