FOSSILIZATION
a term in second language acquisition where the person's skills fall short of attaining native proficiency in the language. See…
FRACTIONATION
the name that is given to the psychophysical procedure used to scale the magnitudes of a sensation. A person might…
FREE FIELD
Acoustics. the term given to the sound field that does not have any reflective boundaries.
FREE-FLOATING ATTENTION
Found in psychoanalysis and in other forms of psychodynamic psychotherapy, the analyst's or therapist's state of evenly suspended attention during…
FREQUENCY JUDGMENT
the term used for the person's judgement of how many times a stimulus is presented during a test. See word…
FROTTEURISM
a paraphilia where a person will deliberately and persistently seek sexual excitement by rubbing against other people. May occur as…
FUNCTION ALLOCATION
a systematic process of applying knowledge and ergonomics to determine the function of a system for human operators and those…
FUNCTIONAL BRAIN IMAGING
the use of brain imaging techniques in order to localise the areas of cognitive activation. See functional magnetic resonance imaging;…
FUNCTIONAL LIMITATION
a term given to the restriction or lack of ability in performing an action or activity.
FUNDAMENTAL ATTRIBUTION ERROR
a tendency to overestimate the degree that behaviour is determined by personal characteristics, beliefs and attitudes that minimises the effects…
FUZZY TRACE
the term that is used to describe an imprecise memory representation. They are easily accessed, need less effort, less susceptible…
FACT MEMORY
is considered the binary opposite to source memory, where it is memory for a specific fact (see facual knowledge for…
FACTORIAL DESIGN
is one of the many experimental designs used in psychological experiments where two or more independent variables are simultaneously manipulated…
FAITHFUL PARTICIPANT
is otherwise known as a faithful subject, in the context of experiments, they are participants who follow the instructions both,…
FALSE MEMORY SYNDROME (FMS)
is one of the more controversial syndromes which concerns a false recollection of having been sexually or even physically abused…
FAMILIAL STUDY OF INTELLIGENCE
is one of the many tests which looks intelligence, where two people who are considered genetically related are then given…
FAMILY RESEMBLANCE
with respect to studies looking at categorisation, family resemblance is the tendency for children or members within a collective family…
FASCIOLUS GYRUS
is otherwise known as the gyrus fasciolaris and is part of the hippocampal formation which appears as a delicate band…