FRENUM FRENZY
the name for the temporary state of wild excitement, mental agitation and violent behavior. It has been associated with mania…
FREUDIAN THEORY OF PERSONALITY
A general psychoanalytic concept of character and personality being the product of fixations and experiences that stem form early stages…
FRONTAL CORTEX
the name of the most anterior part of the cerebral cortex. See also prefrontal cortex.
FUNCTIONAL ANALYTIC CAUSAL MODEL (FACM)
a vector diagram of a functional analysis of a person that visually presents a clinician's conjectures or theories about the…
FUNCTIONAL FIXEDNESS
a term used in problem solving where there is a tendency to cling to set patterns and overlook possible new…
FUNCTIONAL RESERVE
A degree to which the brain is able to adapt functionally to a brain injury. Thought to depend on such…
FUSIONAL LANGUAGE
a language that forms words by the fusion of morphemes, so that the constituent elements of a word are not…
FACE RECOGNITION
is the process of identifying an individual using their facial features and expressions which individual's typically remember greater and for…
FACIAL-AFFECT PROGRAM
is a purely hypothetical creation based on a set of central nervous system nerves, which could be responsible for the…
FACTOR REFLECTION
can be approached from two different angles. The factor reflection is either a change of the signs of a specific…
FAILURE TO THRIVE (FTT)
is a medical term which is used when a child, after birth and up to th age of 2 years…
FALSE AUTHORITY
is one of the assumptive techniques, typically found in business, where an expert in one area of society is assumed…
FAMILY LIFE CYCLE
is the application of a purely Darwinistic approach to families, whereby life events such as marriage, or coupling (in select…
FATHER FIXATION
has been observed in a range of cultures, typically these are in western cultures, a father fixation implies an incredibly…
FEAR OF REJECTION
is a well documented persistent and irrational fear of being socially excluded from a pack (this is when considered from…
FEATURE-NEGATIVE DISCRIMINATION
a go or a don't go procedure of discrimination that is based on a distinctive feature of one or two…