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N., Sam M.S.

Sam holds a masters in Child Psychology and is an avid supporter of Psychology academics.
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FUTURE ORIENTATION

a time perspective that is focused on the future, especially on how to achieve your future goals.

FUNDAMENTAL INTERPERSONAL RELATIONS ORIENTA

the theory that explains the pattern of interactions of group members in terms of the need for inclusion, need for

FUNNEL SEQUENCE

the term applied to a method for structuring the order of questions in surveys and interviews that starts with general

FUNGIFORM PAPILLAE

These are swellings on the front of the tongue that are shaped like a mushroom and number about200. Half have

FUSION

1. Perception. Blending of more than 2 stimulus into a whole, like colours, sounds and vision. 2. A state where

FUNCTIONAL REORGANIZATION

These are the changes that occur after a brain injury to enable other areas of the brain to take over

FUNDAMENTAL SYMPTOMS

The 4 primary symptoms of schizophrenia according to Bleuler, abnormal associations, autistic behaving and thinking, abnormal effect and ambivalence. Compare

FROMM, ERICH

A German psychoanalyst who developed the broad cultural and personal approach to the search for meaning, personality development, enrichment of

FRUSTRATION

1. thwarting of impulses and actions. 2. Emotional state when thwarting happens. 3. Psychoanalytic theory. Damming up of psychic energy

FIXEDNESS

a term that is used in problem solving. See functional fixedness.

VARIABLE-RATIO REINFORCEMENT SCHEDULE (VR SCHEDULE)

with regard to free-operant conditioning, a form of come-and-go reinforcement wherein a reaction is reinforced following a variant amount of

VARIABLE-INTERVAL REINFORCEMENT SCHEDULE (VI SCHEDULE)

with regard to free-operant conditioning, a form of interval reinforcement wherein such displayed for the first reaction following the passing

VARIANCE-COVARIANCE MATRIX

with regard to multivariate statistics, a matrix whose diagonal components are the variances of variants and whose non-diagonal components are

VARIANCE

noun. a gauging of the spread, or dispersion, of scores within a sample, whereby a small variance implies very similar

VARIATE

noun. 1. reference: variant. 2. a specific value of a specific variant.

VARIABLE

noun. An amount in an experiment or test which ranges, that being, takes on many different values which can be

VARIABILITY

noun. 1. the quality of being subject to modification or differentiation of actions or feelings. 2. With regard to statistics

VARIATION

noun. the presence of qualitative differentions in type, anatomy, actions, and physiology across the people of a populace, whether because

VARIANCE STABILIZING TRANSFORMATION

any of a category of transformations whose purpose is to terminate the union between the cell mean and the variance

VARIANT

noun. With regard to a set of items or occurrences, one which varies from the others in some manner while