FRAMINGHAM HEART STUDY
a large-scale long range survey focused on understanding, preventing and treating cardiovascular disease. Conducted for over 50 years, the study…
FREEDOM FROM DISTRACTIBILITY INDEX
an index that is calculated using the Wechsler adult intelligence scale and other Wechsler tests that measures a person's short…
FREQUENCY ANALYSIS WAVEFORM
This term applies to the frequency of a pure tone and is the number of cycles of sinusoidal pressure variant…
FRIEDMAN TEST
the non-parametric test of the equality of medians that are in repeated measures of a matched group. Defined by Herbert…
FRONTAL LOBE SYNDROME
a mental disorder from a lesion in the frontal lobe featuring an impairment of purposeful behaviour, emotional inability, poor social…
FULL INCLUSION
The practice of providing children with disabilities with services in their home school and placing them in a regular classroom…
FUNCTIONAL AUTONOMY
the tendency for drive motivated behavior to develop derivative drives, such that behavior may become independent of the original drive.…
FUNCTIONAL INDEPENDENCE MEASURE (FIM)
a measure used in the rehabilitation of routine motor, cognitive and self-care skills to provide a person a measure of…
FUNCTIONAL STATUS
the measure of a person's ability to perform activities of daily living independently. Functional status may be used as an…
FUTURE SHOCK
the personal confusion and social disorientation that accompany very rapid technological and social change. It was defined by U.S. futurist…
FACILITATION
is the change or difference in the strength of a stimulus which follows a potentially weaker stimulus at a neuron.…
FACTOR STRUCTURE MATRIX
is the hypothetical construction of a structure which is normally associated with factor analysis where the factor structure is a…
FAIRBAIRNIAN THEORY
was first proposed by British psychoanalyst W. Ronald Fairbairn (1889 - 1964) which formed a smaller part of the larger…
FALSE CONSENSUS
is the social phenomena where every member of a group is believed to hold the same opinion, irrespective of the…
FALSIFICATIONISM
was first proposed by Austrian-born British philosopher Karl Popper (1902 - 1994) postulating that only through falisification can a concept…
FAMILY OF ORIGIN
refers to the family, or parents an individual was either raised or born into, this may not be the same…
FARBER'S LIPOGRANULOMATOSIS
was first proposed by Sydney Farber (1903 - 1973), a U.S. paediatric pathologist who postulated the disorder based on lipid…
FATHER-IDEAL
with respect to psychoanalytic theory, the father-ideal is part of the larger ego-ideal, which the larger model implies is formed…
FEAR SURVEY SCHEDULE (FSS)
is a 72-item questionnaire which was designed to accurately measure the level of fear, phobic behaviour and generalized anxiety an…