FIBRILLATION
small and involuntary contraction of muscles from a spontaneous activation of muscle fibres or single muscle cells. It is especially…
FIELD STRUCTURE
a term in Kurt Lewin's field theory. It is the pattern, distribution or hierarchy of all of the parts that…
FILE-DRAWER ANALYSIS
A statistical procedure addressing the file-drawer problem by computing the number of unretrieved studies, averaging an effect size of .00,…
FIRST-ORDER FACTOR
Used in factor analysis. Any factors that are derived from the correlation among the manifest variables, as opposed to second-…
FIVE-FACTOR PERSONALITY MODEL (FFM)
a personality model where 5 dimensions of difference are used, extraversion, neuroticism, conscientiousness, agreeableness and openness to experiences are the…
FLAGELLATION
a term that is applied to one person who whips another or submits to whipping. It can be a form…
FLICKER FUSION
the sensation produced by a flickering light when the rate of flickering is so rapid that the light pulses fuse…
FLOOR EFFECT
the inability of a test to measure or discriminate below a certain point, usually because its items are too difficult.…
FLUMAZENIL
the drug that is used to reverse the symptoms of an overdose of benzodiazepine and to reverse anaesthesia. It displaces…
FOCAL MOTOR SEIZURE
the name of a simple partial seizure that results in motor abnormalities and is due to localised seizure activity in…
FOLIE A CINQ
a shared psychotic disorder where 5 members of the same family have similar or identical delusions. It is a French…
FONTANEL (FONTANELLE)
the soft, membrane-covered area in the incompletely ossified skull of a newborn. They will close before the 2nd year of…
FORCED DISTRIBUTION
a rating system where the raters must use a prescribed number of entries for each level of the rating scale…
FORMAL LOGIC
the name given to the system of prescribed rules for generating valid conclusions or predictions from initial axiomatic assumptions or…
FORNICATION
the term applied to the voluntary sexual intercourse between any two people who are not married to each other. The…
FOUR-DAY WEEK
the name that is applied to the working week that has only 4 working days of 10 hours rather than…
FRAME-OF-ORIENTATION NEED
the need of a person to develop and synthesise their major assumptions and ideas into a coherent view of the…
FREE VARIATION
Linguistics. the state where variant forms of the same linguistic unit appear on an apparently random basis. Used in phonology…