FUNCTIONAL INVARIANT
Found in Jean Piaget's theory. This term applies to any of the processes of organisation and adaptation that characterise the…
FUNCTIONAL INDEPENDENCE MEASURE (FIM)
a measure used in the rehabilitation of routine motor, cognitive and self-care skills to provide a person a measure of…
FUNCTIONAL RESERVE
A degree to which the brain is able to adapt functionally to a brain injury. Thought to depend on such…
FUNCTIONAL LIMITATION
a term given to the restriction or lack of ability in performing an action or activity.
FUNCTIONAL BRAIN IMAGING
the use of brain imaging techniques in order to localise the areas of cognitive activation. See functional magnetic resonance imaging;…
FUNCTIONAL PSYCHOSIS 1
Psychotic state for which no specific neurological or other physical pathology is demonstrated. 2. Obsolete name for any severe mental…
FUNDAMENTAL ATTRIBUTION ERROR
a tendency to overestimate the degree that behaviour is determined by personal characteristics, beliefs and attitudes that minimises the effects…
FUNCTIONAL STATUS
the measure of a person's ability to perform activities of daily living independently. Functional status may be used as an…
FUNCTIONAL PLATEAU
the term for a relatively stable level of physical or psychological functioning that is characteristic of a person in a…
FUNCTIONAL HEARING DISORDERS
the name applied to various auditory impairments for which there is no known biological cause.
FUSIFORM GYRUS
the ridge on the lower surface of each temporal lobe in the brain. It lies between the inferior temporal gyrus…
FUNDAMENTAL SYMPTOMS
The 4 primary symptoms of schizophrenia according to Bleuler, abnormal associations, autistic behaving and thinking, abnormal effect and ambivalence. Compare…
FUSIONAL LANGUAGE
a language that forms words by the fusion of morphemes, so that the constituent elements of a word are not…
FUTURE ORIENTATION
a time perspective that is focused on the future, especially on how to achieve your future goals.
FUNCTIONAL VAGINISMUS
Sexual dysfunction with recurrent and persistent involuntary spasms of musculature of the outer third of the vagina which interfere with…
FORM DISTORTION
a term that describes the change of an image that results from the optical qualities of the eye or an…
FORMAL REASONING
the reasoning that we use that entails using operations of formal logic. See deductive reasoning; logic.