FERAL CHILDREN
This term is applied to children that reportedly have been raised by wild animals and isolated from human contact. An…
FETAL TOBACCO SYNDROME
a condition in infants born to mothers who smoked excessively during pregnancy and is marked by low birth weight.
FIGURAL AFTEREFFECT
the term that describes the Gestalt perceptual phenomenon where a shift of vision from the first figure superimposes its image…
FINITE-STATE GRAMMAR
Noam Chomsky in 1957, proposed that grammar generated a sentence one unit at a time in a sequence from left…
FIXED CLASS SOCIETY
the name that is applied to a society that has very little or no social mobility. An example is the…
FLEETING PRESENT
a term that is used to describe the ever changing present moment of our conscious experience. This was defined by…
FLIGHT INTO REALITY
The defensive reaction where a person becomes over-involved in activity and work as an unconscious means of avoiding threatening situations…
FLUCTUATING ASYMMETRY
a term applied to the degree to which the symmetry of body parts of individuals will vary from the norm…
FLUVOXAMINE
the name that has been given to a potent SSRI that is used to mainly treat obsessive compulsive disorders.
FOCUS OF ATTENTION
the term that is applied to that aspect of an internal or external event to which a person's attention is…
FOLK PSYCHOLOGY
1. The explanation and prediction of behaviour of others using references to their mental states. . 2. Obsolete name for…
FOOTEDNESS
a term that is used for the preferential use of one foot rather than the other, for example, in kicking.
FOREGROUNDING
Technique of high lighting certain aspects of a complex stimulus to make them the focus of our attention. A speaker…
FORGIVENESS
To wilfully put aside any feelings of resentment you may have towards a person who has committed a wrong, has…
FRACTIONAL FACTORIAL DESIGN
an experimental design where some higher order interactions are intentionally confounded with lower order interactions to reduce the total number…