FLOCCILLATION
used to describe the aimless grasping and plucking at clothing or bedding by a person suffering from dementia, delirium, extreme…
FLUENT SPEECH
This term is applied to speech that is essentially normal in quantity, stress, pitch, rhythm, and intonation. A person with…
FOCAL ATTENTION
name given to the attention we focus on a certain stimuli while disregarding the rest. Information in our attention span…
FOCUSING EFFECT
Is used in ESP and psychokinesis where a person's performance is better when the target is the attention of special…
FOLLICLE-STIMULATING HORMONE (FSH)
the gonadotropin that is released by the anterior pituitary gland. In females it stimulates development in the ovary of graafian…
FORAMINOTOMY
the surgical enlargement of one of the foramina between adjacent vertebrae that spinal nerves pass. It is done by enlarging…
FORENSIC PSYCHIATRY
Psychiatry. Deals with abnormal behaviour and mental disorders that relate to legal issues like trials and hearings. It mainly deals…
FORMAL DISCIPLINE
the term that is applied to the concept that some subjects, like mathematics and foreign languages need to be studied…
FORM-FUNCTION DISTINCTION
a distinction between two fundamentally different ways of analysing language. One with respect to its structural properties or form and…
FOSTER-CHILD FANTASY
the name that is given to the childhood belief or fantasy that their parents are actually adoptive or foster parents.…
FRAGMENTATION OF THINKING
where the process of thinking is confused where a complete action is no longer possible. It is a primary symptom…
FREE NERVE ENDING
the name of the branched ending of an afferent neuron that is found in the skin and is believed to…
FREE-RESPONSE TEST
The type of examination where answers are constructed by the student, short-answer tests and essay tests are examples. This type…
FREQUENCY PRINCIPLE
the principle that states that the greater the stimulation intensity, the greater the frequency of nerve impulses elicited. An organisms…
FRINGE-FOCUS STRUCTURE
a model of consciousness where the conscious content is typically a focal component that has clear and discernible sensory features…
FRUSTRATION TOLERANCE
the ability a person has to endure the tension and to preserve equanimity when met with obstacles. It is a…
FUNCTIONAL
1.Psychology. Denoting or referring to a disorder where normal behavior changes without an observable organic or structural cause. 2. Generally,…
FUNCTIONAL DEAFNESS
the term for the loss of hearing that is not associated with any known structural abnormality or disease.
FUNCTIONAL OPERANT
the term used for the class of responses whose probability is changed by the imposition of an operant contingency. Lever…
FUNDAMENTAL SYMPTOMS
The 4 primary symptoms of schizophrenia according to Bleuler, abnormal associations, autistic behaving and thinking, abnormal effect and ambivalence. Compare…