FORCED DISTRIBUTION
a rating system where the raters must use a prescribed number of entries for each level of the rating scale…
FORMAL LOGIC
the name given to the system of prescribed rules for generating valid conclusions or predictions from initial axiomatic assumptions or…
FORNICATION
the term applied to the voluntary sexual intercourse between any two people who are not married to each other. The…
FOUR-CARD SELECTION PROBLEM
the name of a problem solving task using four cards, each has a letter on one side and a number…
FRAME PROBLEM
the term applied to the technical difficulty that arises in artificial intelligence and computational models of human cognition that involves…
FREE RIDER
a term used to describe a person who gives little or no effort to a joint endeavour but will gain…
FRENCH KISS
term for the type of sexual arousal where 2 people will kiss with their mouths open so that their tongues…
FREUD, SIGMUND
He pioneered psychoanalysis after studying neurology and turning to mental disorders like hysteria. He developed a method of free association…
FROMM, ERICH
A German psychoanalyst who developed the broad cultural and personal approach to the search for meaning, personality development, enrichment of…
FUNCTIONAL AMNESIA
a psychiatric disorder with amnesia for autobiographical events. Episodic memory is lost about yourself as is semantic memory when a…
FUNCTIONAL ELECTRIC STIMULATION (FES)
the term given to the application of electric current to peripheral nerves through the use of electrodes in order to…
FUNCTIONAL PSYCHOSIS 1
Psychotic state for which no specific neurological or other physical pathology is demonstrated. 2. Obsolete name for any severe mental…
FUSIFORM GYRUS
the ridge on the lower surface of each temporal lobe in the brain. It lies between the inferior temporal gyrus…
FABLES TEST
is an umbrella term which is used to describe any test where the participants are asked to interpret fables; these…
FACIAL FEEDBACK HYPOTHESIS
was first proposed by U.S. psychologists Sylvan S. Tomkins (1911 - 1991) and Carroll F. Izard (1923 - ) as…
FACTOR LOADING
is a term used primarily within the process of factor analysis; it is the correlational relationship between the manifest and…