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…
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…
F DISTRIBUTION
is used in chi-squared distribution sets, as a probability distribution of two independent chi-square (based) random variables which are both…
FACIAL DISFIGUREMENT
is typically the result of a medical condition or accident in an individual's life which leaves them with any distortion,…
FACTITIOUS DISORDER
is considered (in the DSM-IV-TR), as any of a group of disorders in which the patient intentionally produces or feigns…
FACTUAL KNOWLEDGE
is knowledge, which is gained by the individual semantically, or otherwise the knowledge maybe generic. Examples can be any piece…
FALLECTOMY
is a similar process to salpingectomies; fallectomy involves the sterilization of a female, where their fallopian tubes are either cut,…
FALSE PREGNANCY
is otherwise known as pseudocyesis or a pseudopregnancy, where a women will display all the normal signs of pregnancy but…
FAMILY SUPPORT SERVICES
can include services such as day and overnight respite and parental training for family members of an individual who suffers…
FAST MUSCLE FIBER
is a type of muscle fibre, however, the binary opposite to slow muscle fibres. Fast muscle fibres are found in…
FEAR APPEAL
is one method of changing and individuals opinion or view of a specific concept or ideal; through using the fear…
FEATURE ABSTRACTION
Hypothetical process where a person learns from experience with the exemplars of different categories where features are used to describe…