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…
FLUOXETINE
an antidepressant that is the prototype for selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors or SSRI. It's biologically active metabolic product is norfluoxetine…
FOCAL SYMPTOMS
the term that is used o describe the symptoms that are limited to a specific area of our body.
FOLIE A QUATRE
another shared psychotic disorder that affects 4 members of the same family. The delusions are identical or similar. French tine…
FOOD FADDISM
the dietary practice based on exaggerated and often incorrect beliefs about the effects of food or nutrition on health, particularly…
FORCED-RESPONSE TEST
This term is applied to a multiple choice quiz where a person will choose one of the responses to the…
FORETHOUGHT
the term applied to a person's ability to anticipate the consequences of their actions and the actions of others people.…
FORMAL PARALLELISM
the comparative approach to the concept of development that relates multiple modes of functioning to different levels of organisation and…
FORWARD ASSOCIATION
the term that is applied to the formation of an associative link between 2 items that will follow in a…
FOURIER ANALYSIS
the name of the mathematical analysis of complex waveforms that uses the fact that they can be expressed as an…
FREE-ASSOCIATION TEST
a word test where participants are offered a stimulus word and are expected to respond as quickly as possible with…
FREY ESTHESIOMETER
A device that is sued to measure the minimum intensity of pressure stimulus needed to produce a sensation on the…
FRONTAL EYE-FIELD LESION
lesion from surgery or injury in the anterior part of the brain to the motor area that is used for…
FULFILLMENT
the term for the actual or felt satisfaction of needs and desires and the attainment of aspirations. See also wish…
FUNCTIONAL APPROACH TO ATTITUDES
a theoretical perspective that postulates that attitudes are formed to serve one or more different functions and that these functions…
FUNCTIONAL GRAMMAR
an approach to grammar using categories that reflect nonlinguistic factors, such as intention and social context, rather than categories based…
FUNCTIONAL SELECTION
the survival over time of a person's capacities that are more useful to the person and are coupled with the…