FOOD CACHING
a term applied to animals that store food for later consumption. Some birds will save enough food to eat over…
FOOD ADDICTION
the name given to an eating disturbance where a person is preoccupied with weight, body image and food. Food is…
FORAMEN MAGNUM
the large opening at the base of the skull that the spinal cord and left and right vertebral arteries and…
FORCED COMPLIANCE EFFECT
the tendency of a person who has behaved in a way that contradicts their attitude to subsequently alter the attitude…
FOREGROUND-BACKGROUND
used in our perception and is the distinction between the object of attention, which is the foreground and details in…
FORCED-RESPONSE TEST
This term is applied to a multiple choice quiz where a person will choose one of the responses to the…
FORCED DISTRIBUTION
a rating system where the raters must use a prescribed number of entries for each level of the rating scale…
FONTANEL (FONTANELLE)
the soft, membrane-covered area in the incompletely ossified skull of a newborn. They will close before the 2nd year of…
FOREWARNING OF PERSUASIVE INTENT
the term that is applied to the receipt of information that a subsequent communication is meant to change the attitude…
FORETHOUGHT
the term applied to a person's ability to anticipate the consequences of their actions and the actions of others people.…
FORENSIC PSYCHOLOGY
This involves the application of psychological principles and techniques to situations involving the law or legal systems that are criminal…
FORGETTING
the term that is given to a person's inability to remember or recall a thing that should have been remembered.…
FOREGROUNDING
Technique of high lighting certain aspects of a complex stimulus to make them the focus of our attention. A speaker…
FORMAL GRAMMAR
a term that is applied to the description of language in terms of its form and structure as opposed to…
FLICKER STIMULUS
the name that is used to describe a periodically changing auditory or visual stimulus that will make a rapidly alternating…
FORM DISTORTION
a term that describes the change of an image that results from the optical qualities of the eye or an…