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…
FROMM, ERICH (1900—)
The United States in 1933. In his widely read books—Escape from Freedom (1941), Man for Himself (1947), The Sane Society…
FABRICATION
is a term which can be applied to a number of examples; for example, fabrication may refer to the act…
FACIAL MUSCLE
is an umbrella term used to describe any of the muscles which are found in the face which are responsible…
FACTOR METHOD
is a basic and simple term which is used to describe the method during which factors which are extracted from…
FAIL-SAFE DESIGN
refers to the design of a specific object, where the project team would have taken all reasonable steps to remove…
FALSE ALARM
is one of the signal detection tasks, where an incorrect observation by a participant in an experiment may be present…
FALSE-BELIEF TASK
are typically associated with theory-of-mind studies where they are tasks during which children must infer that another understand or possess…
FAMILY GROUP PSYCHOTHERAPY
is one of the many strands of group therapy, whereby the family group which is affect is 'treated' opposed to…
FAMILY VALUES
is associated with more traditional families, whereby there is a set list or collection of social values such as; discipline,…
FATE NEUROSIS
with respect to psychoanalytic theory, fate neurosis is a compulsive and unconscious need to arrange life events in a specific…
FEAR OF FAILURE
is a relatively normal and actually well documented persistent and irrational axiety of failing to complete a certain task or…
FEATURE MODEL
a model of a person's general knowledge or of their semantic memory suggesting that information can be described as sets…