FILTERED SPEECH
This term is used to describe the words that have been filtered to only let a certain frequency band to…
FIRST-LINE MEDICATION
the name given to a doctor's drug of choice for a particular condition that is an effective treatment that has…
FITTS MOVEMENT TASK
the name that is used for a motor skills test that will show the relationship between speed and accuracy of…
FLACCID PARALYSIS
the name that is given to a paralysis that is marked by a loss of muscle tone and an absence…
FLUID-CRYSTALLIZED INTELLIGENCE THEORY
the theory that intelligence is of 2 kinds, fluid and crystallised. Fluid copes with new problems and situations where as…
FOCAL LESION
the term that is applied to a lesion that has been restricted to a specific region of the brain or…
FOLIATE PAPILLAE
The swellings along the lateral margins of our tongue, 5 to 7 on each side and shaped like a leaf.…
FOLLOW-UP STUDY
the study undertaken to see if the short term effects of a therapy will continue after a certain period of…
FORCED COPULATION
the copulation of a male with an unwilling female seen in animals and insects. The larger male will monopolise the…
FOREPERIOD
a term that is seen in reaction time experiments and is the pause seen between the ready signal and the…
FORMAL GROUP
the name that is given to any group that has been deliberately formed by members for a specific purpose. It…
FORMS OF ADDRESS
These are the terms that are applied to the way in which we address each other in a written or…
FOUR-CARD SELECTION PROBLEM
the name of a problem solving task using four cards, each has a letter on one side and a number…
FRAME PROBLEM
the term applied to the technical difficulty that arises in artificial intelligence and computational models of human cognition that involves…
FREE RIDER
a term used to describe a person who gives little or no effort to a joint endeavour but will gain…
FRENCH KISS
term for the type of sexual arousal where 2 people will kiss with their mouths open so that their tongues…
FREUD, SIGMUND
He pioneered psychoanalysis after studying neurology and turning to mental disorders like hysteria. He developed a method of free association…
FROMM, ERICH
A German psychoanalyst who developed the broad cultural and personal approach to the search for meaning, personality development, enrichment of…