FECHNER'S COLORS
These are the illusory sensations of colour that arise when a disc with black and white sectors is spun about…
FEE-FOR-SERVICE
This denotes the traditional method of payment for health care services, in which physicians or other providers set their own…
FEMALENESS
the quality of being female in the anatomical and physiological sense by virtue of possessing the female complement of a…
FIELD INDEPENDENCE
a cognitive style where the person relies on internal cues and will disregard deceptive cues from the external world. Compare…
FIGURATIVE KNOWLEDGE
the knowledge we acquire by remembering specific features, facts, words, recall dates, impressions, shapes and colours. Compare operative knowledge.
FILL-IN QUESTIONS
method used to test students where they need to fill in the missing words or phrases in sentences relating to…
FIXED-EFFECTS MODEL
the statistical model where the statistical parameters that index the effectiveness of treatments are treated as fixed parameters and not…
FMOX STATISTIC
the name that is given to the statistic used for testing the hypothesis of homogeneity of variance in k independently…
FOCUSED ATTENTION, FOCAL CONSCIOUSNESS
These terms are applied to the clearest contents of our consciousness. See fringe focus structure. Compare fringe consciousness.
FORENSIC ASSESSMENT
the evaluation of the mental state of a defendant, witness or offender for the purpose of informing the court.
FORM PERCEPTION
a term that is applied to the perception of a two-dimensional retinal image as a coherent three-dimensional form and entity.