FRONTAL LOBE SYNDROME
a mental disorder from a lesion in the frontal lobe featuring an impairment of purposeful behaviour, emotional inability, poor social…
FULL INCLUSION
The practice of providing children with disabilities with services in their home school and placing them in a regular classroom…
FUNCTIONAL AUTONOMY
the tendency for drive motivated behavior to develop derivative drives, such that behavior may become independent of the original drive.…
FUNCTIONAL INDEPENDENCE MEASURE (FIM)
a measure used in the rehabilitation of routine motor, cognitive and self-care skills to provide a person a measure of…
FUNCTIONAL STATUS
the measure of a person's ability to perform activities of daily living independently. Functional status may be used as an…
FUTURE SHOCK
the personal confusion and social disorientation that accompany very rapid technological and social change. It was defined by U.S. futurist…
FACE-HAND TEST
involves the examining individual touching the individual's face at the same time as touching the back of their hand; this…
FACILITATED COMMUNICATION
was first developed by Australian educator Rosemary Crosslet (1945 -) in the 1970s as method of enabling the communication of…
FACTOR SCORE
is an estimate of the final score which an individual should expect a specific factor to achieve from factor analysis…
FALSE CAUSE
is one of the many types of informal fallacy where a temporal sequence of events is assumed by an individual…
FALSIFIABILITY
was first argued by Austria-born British philosopher Karl Popper (1902 - 1994) as one of the staple canons of the…
FAMILY METHOD
with respect to behaviour genetics, one of the many studies in psychology and biology, the family method is the frequency…
FATHER-DAUGHTER INCEST
is an umbrella term which is used to describe any of the sexual relationships or relations between a father and…
FEAR RESPONSE
is a general term used to describe the range of movements which organisms will undertake when responding to a threat.…
FEBRILE DELIRIUM
a delirium that is associated with or is caused by a high body temperature or a fever.
FEEDING AND EATING DISORDERS OF INFANCY OR EARLY CHILDHOOD
Aa category of disorders are characterised by pathological feeding or eating behaviours usually first diagnosed in infancy, childhood and adolescence.…
FEMALE CHOICE
the term used for the selectivity displayed by females in choosing a mate. Because females often expend much more energy…
FENFLURAMINE
drug related to amphetamines that acts as a serotonin receptor agonist that was used to manage obesity. It created heart…