FACT GIVER
during a psychotherapy session, or psychotherapy discussion, looking at a particular topic or task within psychotherapy, the fact giver will…
FACTOR-COMPARISON METHOD
is one of the many methods used to evaluate jobs which is then used to set an appropriate wage or…
FAITH HEALING
is one of the many more hollistic approaches to the curing of diseases and ill health which is typically practiced…
FALSE MEMORY
is otherwise known as illusory memory. A false memory is considered a distortion of a memory which had previously been…
FAMILIAL HORMONAL DISORDER
was first observed by W. Koennicke in 1919, and is a syndrome which has recently been associated with mental deficiencies,…
FAMILY PSYCHOLOGY
is one of the many branches of psychology which looks specifically at the interactions within a family unit or collective…
FASCINATION
has a range of potential applications to real-life situations, for example fascination, may refer to an individual's profound interest in…
FATIGUE EFFECT
is one of the many effects attributed to fatigue, where the individual gradually becomes less and less efficient, even when…
FEAR-INDUCED AGGRESSION
a form of animal aggression where the animal will attack only after it has been severely threatened and cornered.
FECHNER, GUSTAV THEODOR
Physician who didn't practice medicine but studied natural philosophy. After an illness he spent time looking at mental and physical…
FEEDING TECHNIQUE
the manner in which an infant is fed. The technique will be breast fed or bottle fed.
FEMALE SPERM
This term is given to the spermatozoa that bear an X chromosome and therefore determine that an ovum they fertilise…
FERREE-RAND DOUBLE BROKEN CIRCLES
a figure that is used to test for visual acuity and astigmatism. A gap size is for acuity and if…
FIELD EXPERIMENT
an experiment that is not conducted inside a laboratory but is done outside in the real world setting. Participants are…
FIGURAL SYNTHESIS
our creation of a meaningful figure from the synthesis of selected portions of the incoming stimulus input that was proposed…
FILLED-SPACE ILLUSION
term that is used to describe the source of a distortion seen in distance estimation. Distance estimation increases as a…
FIXED-ACTION PATTERN (FAP)
Classical ethology. It is a stereotyped and genetically preprogrammed, species-specific behavioral sequence that is evoked by a particular stimulus and…