FIELD VERIFICATION
the term that is applied to the research to assess the effectiveness of product packaging and other marketing-related activities in…
FILIAL GENERATION
the term applied to the successive generations of descent from the original parent generation. First descents are F and their…
FINGER AGNOSIA
A type of agnosia where a person is unable to point to fingers or use them to point to other…
FIRST-RANK SYMPTOMS
These are the symptoms of schizophrenia that were proposed originally. They include hallucinations, delusional perceptions, thought process changes, somatic passiveness…
FLASHBULB MEMORY
the term that is given to any memory that is associated with a personally significant or emotional event. These memories…
FLIGHT FROM REALITY
a defensive reaction where a person will withdraw into inactivity, fantasy or detachment and is an unconscious defence to anxiety.…
FLOW PATTERN
a term that is used to describe the aggregate movement of the elements that are in a visual scene as…
FLUOXETINE
an antidepressant that is the prototype for selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors or SSRI. It's biologically active metabolic product is norfluoxetine…
FOCAL SYMPTOMS
the term that is used o describe the symptoms that are limited to a specific area of our body.
FOLIE A QUATRE
another shared psychotic disorder that affects 4 members of the same family. The delusions are identical or similar. French tine…
FOOD FADDISM
the dietary practice based on exaggerated and often incorrect beliefs about the effects of food or nutrition on health, particularly…
FORCED-RESPONSE TEST
This term is applied to a multiple choice quiz where a person will choose one of the responses to the…
FORETHOUGHT
the term applied to a person's ability to anticipate the consequences of their actions and the actions of others people.…
FORMAL PARALLELISM
the comparative approach to the concept of development that relates multiple modes of functioning to different levels of organisation and…
FORWARD ASSOCIATION
the term that is applied to the formation of an associative link between 2 items that will follow in a…
FOURIER ANALYSIS
the name of the mathematical analysis of complex waveforms that uses the fact that they can be expressed as an…
FREE-ASSOCIATION TEST
a word test where participants are offered a stimulus word and are expected to respond as quickly as possible with…