FREE-FLOATING ATTENTION
Found in psychoanalysis and in other forms of psychodynamic psychotherapy, the analyst's or therapist's state of evenly suspended attention during…
FUNCTIONAL
1.Psychology. Denoting or referring to a disorder where normal behavior changes without an observable organic or structural cause. 2. Generally,…
FUNCTION WORD
a word with little or no meaning when by itself but plays an important role in our language. Examples are…
FUNCTIONAL ANALYSIS
1. Detailed analysis of a behaviour to identify contingencies that sustain the behaviour. 2. Synthesis of a client's behaviour problems…
FUNCTIONAL AMNESIA
a psychiatric disorder with amnesia for autobiographical events. Episodic memory is lost about yourself as is semantic memory when a…
FRINGE CONSCIOUSNESS
These are the aspects of our consciousness and experience that lack the focal and perceptual qualities. They vary a lot…
FORMATIVE TENDENCY
the term that is applied to the general drive toward self- improvement, growth that was hypothesized by Carl Rogers in…
FORM-FUNCTION DISTINCTION
a distinction between two fundamentally different ways of analysing language. One with respect to its structural properties or form and…
FUNCTIONAL DEAFNESS
the term for the loss of hearing that is not associated with any known structural abnormality or disease.
FUNCTIONAL CONFORMANCE
Environmental design. Provision of the objects and equipment needed to adapt an environment to a given set of functional uses…
FUNCTIONAL COMMUNICATION TRAINING
technique in behaviour therapy for people who have been diagnosed with developmental impairments such as mental retardation, autism spectrum disorder…
FUNCTIONAL GRAMMAR
an approach to grammar using categories that reflect nonlinguistic factors, such as intention and social context, rather than categories based…
FUNCTIONAL FIXEDNESS
a term used in problem solving where there is a tendency to cling to set patterns and overlook possible new…
FUNCTIONAL HEARING DISORDERS
the name applied to various auditory impairments for which there is no known biological cause.
FUNCTIONAL BRAIN IMAGING
the use of brain imaging techniques in order to localise the areas of cognitive activation. See functional magnetic resonance imaging;…
FUNCTION ALLOCATION
a systematic process of applying knowledge and ergonomics to determine the function of a system for human operators and those…
FORWARD CONDITIONING
Pavlovian conditioning. the pairing of 2 stimuli that are presented before the unconditioned stimulus. Also called forward pairing. Compare backward…
EYE-MOVEMENT CAMERA
is otherwise known as an eye tracker; normally an electronic device which photographs various eye movements (during specific conditions, such…