FORMICOPHILIA
a term that is used to describe the sexual interest and pleasure that is derived from small animals, insects and…
FOUNDER EFFECT
the name that is applied to the occurrence of a mutation of an increased frequency in a population because of…
FREEZING BEHAVIOR
the term for a form of passive avoidance where a person remains still and makes no effort to run or…
FREQUENCY TABLE
a numerical summary of the frequency of occurrences of the particular values of a measurement.
FRUSTRATION-REGRESSION HYPOTHESIS
The theory that frustration often leads to behavior characteristic of a much earlier period of life and was proposed in…
FUNCTIONAL AGE
term for a person's age that is determined as a measure of their functional capabilities that have been indexed to…
FUNCTIONAL DISTANCE
the degree to which an arrangement of residential faculties will influence the probability of any unplanned social interactions by the…
FUNCTIONAL PLASTICITY
1. Adaptive change. 2. Ability of one part of our brain to adapt to losing another part. One hemisphere will…
FUNNEL SEQUENCE
the term applied to a method for structuring the order of questions in surveys and interviews that starts with general…
FACIAL ELECTROMYOGRAPHY
is one of the many applications of electromyography, where the various levels of endogenous electrical activity of any muscle groups…
FACTOR ANALYSIS
is the mathematical process during which a larger set of variables is reduced to better accommodate the experimental design to…
FACULTY PSYCHOLOGY
was first proposed by the 18th century by Scottish philosophers Thomas Reid (1710 - 1796) and Dugald Stewart (1753 -…
FALLOPIAN TUBE
is one of the slender fleshy tubes found predominantly in the mammal kingdom that allow the passage of ova (egg…
FALSE SELF
was one of the primary canons postulated by the British psychoanalyst Donald Winnicott (1896 - 1971) in the larger and…
FAMILY CONSTELLATION
has also been associated with Alfred Adler; the family constellation refers to the collection of relationships within a particular family…
FAMILY SYSTEMS THEORY
is otherwise known as the Bowen Family Systems Theory. Family systems theory is a broad conceptual model which is the…