FAILURE TO THRIVE (FTT)
is a medical term which is used when a child, after birth and up to th age of 2 years…
FALSE AUTHORITY
is one of the assumptive techniques, typically found in business, where an expert in one area of society is assumed…
FAMILY LIFE CYCLE
is the application of a purely Darwinistic approach to families, whereby life events such as marriage, or coupling (in select…
FATHER FIXATION
has been observed in a range of cultures, typically these are in western cultures, a father fixation implies an incredibly…
FEAR OF REJECTION
is a well documented persistent and irrational fear of being socially excluded from a pack (this is when considered from…
FEATURE-NEGATIVE DISCRIMINATION
a go or a don't go procedure of discrimination that is based on a distinctive feature of one or two…
FEEDBACK SYSTEM
a circuit in which output information is used to modulate the input to the same circuit. In a negative feedback…
FEMINIZATION OF POVERTY
a trend for the poorest people in a western society to be women. It is attributed to a range of…
FETAL MONITORING
the measuring of the physiological characteristics of the foetus. Foetal monitoring is used to assess the well-being of the foetus…
FICTIONAL FINALISM
Psychoanalytic theory of Alfred Adler. The belief that human beings are more strongly motivated by the goals and ideals that…
FIELD VERIFICATION
the term that is applied to the research to assess the effectiveness of product packaging and other marketing-related activities in…
FILIAL GENERATION
the term applied to the successive generations of descent from the original parent generation. First descents are F and their…
FINGER AGNOSIA
A type of agnosia where a person is unable to point to fingers or use them to point to other…
FIRST-RANK SYMPTOMS
These are the symptoms of schizophrenia that were proposed originally. They include hallucinations, delusional perceptions, thought process changes, somatic passiveness…
FLASHBULB MEMORY
the term that is given to any memory that is associated with a personally significant or emotional event. These memories…
FLIGHT FROM REALITY
a defensive reaction where a person will withdraw into inactivity, fantasy or detachment and is an unconscious defence to anxiety.…