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…
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…
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…
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…