FEMININITY
a person in possession of social and role behaviours that are presumed to be characteristic of a girl or woman,…
FERTILIZATION
the fusion of a sperm and an egg cell to produce a zygote. External occurs outside the female's body, as…
FIELD NOTES
These are the notes that are taken when out in the field and observing an experiment or a phenomenon. They…
FIGURATIVE LANGUAGE
using language to describe an object or feeling by using alliteration, metaphors, personification and analogies. It seen in all areas…
FILM COLOR
the term that is used to describe the film like and texture free colour that is not localised and is…
FIRST ADMISSION
a term that is applied to a person when they are first admitted into a mental hospital or institution.
FIT TO WIN HEALTH PROMOTION PROGRAM
program that the U.S. Department of Defense designed to promote health through education by reducing behavioral risk factors, such smoking,…
FIXED-INTERVAL SCHEDULE (FI SCHEDULE)
schedule of reinforcement that was known as periodic reinforcement where the first response after an interval will be reinforced. It…
FLOATING-LIMB RESPONSE
the term that describes the standard hypnotic inductions and is a positive response to a suggestion allowing the hand to…
FLUENT APHASIA
the term for aphasia where a person can speak well but has trouble in naming objects and understanding language. Compare…
FMRI MEASURES OF INTELLIGENCE
These are yielded by functional magnetic resonance in ageing methods that allow fairly precise indications of which parts of the…
FORAMEN MAGNUM
the large opening at the base of the skull that the spinal cord and left and right vertebral arteries and…
FORENSIC NEUROPSYCHOLOGY
the application of clinical neuropsychology to issues of both civil and criminal law, particularly those relating to claims of brain…
FORM QUALITY
a term in Gestalt psychology where the emergent feature makes a thing recognisable even after it has been transformed.
FORMES FRUSTES
a French term for the indefinite or the atypical symptoms of a disease. It is French for coarse forms.