FATIGUE CHECKLIST
is typically used by physicians to diagnose fatigue; the checklists are standarized lists of symptoms associated with the medical condition,…
FEARFUL ATTACHMENT
Adult attachment style with a negative internal model of attachment of yourself and of other people. It comes about by…
FEEDING PROBLEM
seen in children who refuse to eat, eat small amounts, refuse certain foods and fail to digest, hold food down…
FEMALE SEXUAL AROUSAL DISORDER
the failure in a woman to be able to attain or to maintain an adequate response in the excitement or…
FERNALD METHOD
A reading approach based on several senses being used at the same time. It uses hearing, tracing, seeing and writing…
FETAL-MATERNAL EXCHANGE
the exchange of substances between the mother and the baby. The baby is supplied with nutrients and oxygen and waste…
FIELD DEPENDENCE
cognitive style where the person relies on external cues rather than internal cues. These people are susceptible to deceptive cues…
FIGURAL COHESION
the principle of Gestalt psychology that describes the tendency for parts of a figure to be perceived as a whole…
FILIFORM PAPILLAE
name of the most common of the four types of papillae, covering most of the surface of the human tongue…
FIRE-SETTING BEHAVIOR
a term that is used to describe a person's behaviour who has the tendency to set fires. Compare pyromania.
FIXED-ACTION PATTERN (FAP)
Classical ethology. It is a stereotyped and genetically preprogrammed, species-specific behavioral sequence that is evoked by a particular stimulus and…
FLESCH INDEX
the name of a system used to evaluate the readability and reading level of a document. Words and sentences are…
FLIGHT OF IDEAS
a disturbance in the thinking processes that is a rapid and continuous succession of ideas that are related. It can…
FLUCTUATION OF PERCEPTION
the tendency for perception to alternate between competing stimuli that cannot be integrated or synthesized with each other. See bi-stable…
FLYNN EFFECT
name of the gradual rise in IQ levels since records were started. The average is the same but the raw…