FLIGHT INTO ILLNESS
1. The tendency a person has to exaggerate minor complaints in order to avoid stressful situations. 2. Psychotherapy. Sudden development…
FLOWING CONSCIOUSNESS
the term that describes a pleasurable sense of flow and the effortlessness that accompanies skilled and non-conflicting activities.
FLUTTERING HEARTS
a visual illusion where figures in one colour are presented on a background with the same level of brightness but…
FOCUS GROUP
group of about 12 people with common characteristics who have been selected to discuss a topic. A leader starts the…
FOLK BILINGUALISM
a type of bilingualism that is associated with working-class immigrant communities where the native language is primarily oral and its…
FOOT-CANDLE (FC)
a term that was used to describe luminescence that has been replaced by the lux. One foot candle is equal…
FOREGROUND-BACKGROUND
used in our perception and is the distinction between the object of attention, which is the foreground and details in…
FORGETTING
the term that is given to a person's inability to remember or recall a thing that should have been remembered.…
FORWARD SELECTION
the variable selection or model building technique that is used in multiple regressions where variables are added to the model…
FRACTIONAL ANTEDATING GOAL RESPONSE
the name given to a reaction that develops progressively earlier in conditioning a series of responses and may become a…
FREE AND APPROPRIATE PUBLIC EDUCATION
the name given to the US educational provision where each student will receive appropriate education for any level of disability…
FREEDOM TO WITHDRAW
the term that is given to the right that a participant in research has to be able to drop out…
FREQUENCY CURVE
the term applied to the smoothed curve that is derived from empirical data that represents the density function of the…
FRIEDREICH'S ATAXIA
a hereditary and progressive syndrome of muscular incoordination resulting from degenerating nerve tissue in the spinal cord and the nerves…
FRONTAL LOBOTOMY
a surgical procedure where the nerve fibres that connect the frontal lobe to the rest of the brain are cut…
FULLERTON-CATTELL LAW
the generalization that errors of observation and difference threshold are proportional to the square root of the magnitude of the…
FUNCTIONAL INVARIANT
Found in Jean Piaget's theory. This term applies to any of the processes of organisation and adaptation that characterise the…
FUNCTIONAL TYPES
Carl Jung. The 4 personality types based on functions of ego. They are feeling type, thinking type, sensation type, intuitive…