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…
FALSE-ALARM RATE
is the number or proportion of incorrect answers such as "Yes" or "No" given as final responses to tasks within…
FAMILY COUNSELING
is one of the various types of counselling whereby parents, or even other family members, work with trained individual's such…
FAMILY THERAPY
involves the whole family becoming involved in the counselling process, instead of focussed efforts looking at a single individual, indeed,…