FOCUSING MECHANISM
the name of the system of ciliary muscles, lens elasticity, and ocular fluid pressure that allows our eyes focus an…
FOLLOWING BEHAVIOR
the name of a species-specific trait seen in some young animals where they will follow after a parent or a…
FORCE FIELD
a term used in field theory for the totality that exists in any instant of all coexisting factors that will…
FORENSIC PSYCHOLOGY
This involves the application of psychological principles and techniques to situations involving the law or legal systems that are criminal…
FORMAL FAL
a term used when involving a violation of a principle that is in formal logic. It is either affirming the…
FORMICATION
a term used to describe a very distressing sensation of ants and other insects crawling on a person's skin. It…
FREE OPERANT
the name that is given to the response to a situation that occurs freely at any time. See operant.
FREE-RUNNING RHYTHM
the term for the cycle of behavior or physiological activity that occurs if external stimuli do not provide entrainment. See…
FREQUENCY SELECTIVITY
the property of a system that allows it to be tunes to respond to certain frequencies that give a better…
FRUSTRATION-AGGRESSION HYPOTHESIS
States that frustration produces aggression and aggression results from prior frustrations. Later noted by Neal Miller that frustration leads to…
FUNCTIONAL ACTIVITIES
These are the actions that are associated with our home and work settings. These need to be relearn by people…
FUNCTIONAL DISORDER
the term given to a disorder that there is no known organic basis. In psychology and psychiatry a functional disorders…
FUNGIFORM PAPILLAE
These are swellings on the front of the tongue that are shaped like a mushroom and number about200. Half have…
FACIAL ELECTROMYOGRAPHY
is one of the many applications of electromyography, where the various levels of endogenous electrical activity of any muscle groups…