FEBRILE DELIRIUM
a delirium that is associated with or is caused by a high body temperature or a fever.
FEEDING AND EATING DISORDERS OF INFANCY OR EARLY CHILDHOOD
Aa category of disorders are characterised by pathological feeding or eating behaviours usually first diagnosed in infancy, childhood and adolescence.…
FEMALE CHOICE
the term used for the selectivity displayed by females in choosing a mate. Because females often expend much more energy…
FENFLURAMINE
drug related to amphetamines that acts as a serotonin receptor agonist that was used to manage obesity. It created heart…
FETAL RESPONSE
the response of the baby to the environmental conditions and includes an increase in heart rate when the mother smokes…
FIDGETINESS
a term that is used for the state of an increase in motor activity that is often associated with tics,…
FIGHT-FLIGHT REACTION
the emotional response a person has to an emergency that is designed to allow us to stand and fight or…
FILIAL MATURITY
a term that is applied to the mutual and caring relationship seen between adult children and their older parents and…
FINGER SPELLING
Using the fingers to spell out words by using the fingers themselves to make shapes of the letters being used.…
FISHER EXACT TEST
the name of a statistical test that gives the exact probability of departure from chance for data in a fourfold…
FIXATION POINT
Name of the point in space that the eyes focus on. In visual perception studies a specific point is given…
FLAT ORGANIZATIONAL STRUCTURE
The organizational structure in which there are relatively few levels of management. In recent decades there has been a general…
FLIGHT INTO HEALTH
Psychotherapy. an abrupt recuperation by a client either before or during intake interviews and before therapy begins. A person does…
FLURAZEPAM
the name of a derivative from benzodiazepine that is used in short term treatment of people suffering from insomnia.
FOCUS GAMBLING
seen in tasks that require the generation of hypotheses about what combination of features defines a concept, a strategy in…
FOLK BILINGUALISM
a type of bilingualism that is associated with working-class immigrant communities where the native language is primarily oral and its…
FOOT-CANDLE (FC)
a term that was used to describe luminescence that has been replaced by the lux. One foot candle is equal…
FOREGROUND-BACKGROUND
used in our perception and is the distinction between the object of attention, which is the foreground and details in…
FORGETTING
the term that is given to a person's inability to remember or recall a thing that should have been remembered.…