FROMM, ERICH (1900—)
The United States in 1933. In his widely read books—Escape from Freedom (1941), Man for Himself (1947), The Sane Society…
FRUCTOSURIA
A rare familial disease involving the metabolism of fructose (fruit sugar) and resulting in mental retardationThe disorder is probably transmitted…
FUGUE STATE
An amnesic dissociated state characterized by physical flight from an unbearable situation.A fugue is a more extreme form of escape…
FAMILY CARE
The object of family care is to provide for patients who no longer need the specialized services of a hospital…
FIGURAL AFTEREFFECTS
There are two principal types of aftereffect: the apparent distortion of a figure following prolonged inspection, and the effect of…
FORCED CHOICE
A testing technique that requires the subject to make a choice between two or more favorable or unfavorable alternatives. This…
FRANZ, SHEPHERD IVORY
Chiefly noted for his studies of brain functions, Franz did his undergraduate and graduate work at Columbia University, except for…
FREUD, SIGMUND (1856-1939)
Freud was bom in Freiburg but lived in Vienna from age four to the last year of his life, when…
FIRST-ORDER FACTOR
Used in factor analysis. Any factors that are derived from the correlation among the manifest variables, as opposed to second-…
FIVE-FACTOR PERSONALITY MODEL (FFM)
a personality model where 5 dimensions of difference are used, extraversion, neuroticism, conscientiousness, agreeableness and openness to experiences are the…
FLAGELLATION
a term that is applied to one person who whips another or submits to whipping. It can be a form…
FLICKER FUSION
the sensation produced by a flickering light when the rate of flickering is so rapid that the light pulses fuse…
FLOOR EFFECT
the inability of a test to measure or discriminate below a certain point, usually because its items are too difficult.…
FLUMAZENIL
the drug that is used to reverse the symptoms of an overdose of benzodiazepine and to reverse anaesthesia. It displaces…
FOCAL MOTOR SEIZURE
the name of a simple partial seizure that results in motor abnormalities and is due to localised seizure activity in…
FOLIE A CINQ
a shared psychotic disorder where 5 members of the same family have similar or identical delusions. It is a French…
FONTANEL (FONTANELLE)
the soft, membrane-covered area in the incompletely ossified skull of a newborn. They will close before the 2nd year of…
FORCED DISTRIBUTION
a rating system where the raters must use a prescribed number of entries for each level of the rating scale…