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FINGER AGNOSIA

A type of agnosia where a person is unable to point to fingers or use them to point to other

FIRST-RANK SYMPTOMS

These are the symptoms of schizophrenia that were proposed originally. They include hallucinations, delusional perceptions, thought process changes, somatic passiveness

FIXATION

1. The obsessive pre-occupation with a single idea or aim. 2. Psychoanalytic theory. The persisting of an early psycho-sexual stage

FLASHBULB MEMORY

the term that is given to any memory that is associated with a personally significant or emotional event. These memories

FLIGHT FROM REALITY

a defensive reaction where a person will withdraw into inactivity, fantasy or detachment and is an unconscious defence to anxiety.

FLOW PATTERN

a term that is used to describe the aggregate movement of the elements that are in a visual scene as

FLUPHENAZINE

the name of a high potency antipsychotic drug with side effects of neuron-muscular and extrapyramidal symptoms. It is available in

FOCUS

the term that is used to describe the concentration and centring of our attention on a single stimulus.

FOLIE A TROIS

Another shared psychotic disorder where 3 people in the same family share the same or similar delusions. French for triple

FOOD-INTAKE REGULATION

an ability to adjust food eaten to take into account many different environmental conditions, such as temperature, energy used, calorie

FORCEPS INJURY

the name that is given to an in jury taht occurs at birth by using forceps to deliver the baby.

FOREWARNING OF PERSUASIVE INTENT

the term that is applied to the receipt of information that a subsequent communication is meant to change the attitude

FORMAL REASONING

the reasoning that we use that entails using operations of formal logic. See deductive reasoning; logic.

FORWARD CONDITIONING

Pavlovian conditioning. the pairing of 2 stimuli that are presented before the unconditioned stimulus. Also called forward pairing. Compare backward

FOURIER SPECTRUM

the name that is given to a graph of amplitude as a function of frequency for all the sine waves

FRAMING EFFECT

1. See atmosphere effect. 2. See framing.

FREEBASE

1. The highly concentrated and chemically changed form of cocaine made by treating it with ether. 2. To smoke this

FREQUENCY ANALYSIS

the term for the analysis of frequency changes in event related potentials.

FRICATIVE 1

the term that describes a speech sound made by forcing air through a narrow opening of the vocal tract against

FRONTAL LOBE

one of the four main lobes of each cerebral hemisphere lying in front of the central sulcus. It is concerned