FORMICATION
a term used to describe a very distressing sensation of ants and other insects crawling on a person's skin. It…
FREE OPERANT
the name that is given to the response to a situation that occurs freely at any time. See operant.
FREE-RUNNING RHYTHM
the term for the cycle of behavior or physiological activity that occurs if external stimuli do not provide entrainment. See…
FREQUENCY SELECTIVITY
the property of a system that allows it to be tunes to respond to certain frequencies that give a better…
FRUSTRATION-AGGRESSION HYPOTHESIS
States that frustration produces aggression and aggression results from prior frustrations. Later noted by Neal Miller that frustration leads to…
FUNCTIONAL ACTIVITIES
These are the actions that are associated with our home and work settings. These need to be relearn by people…
FUNCTIONAL DISORDER
the term given to a disorder that there is no known organic basis. In psychology and psychiatry a functional disorders…
FUNGIFORM PAPILLAE
These are swellings on the front of the tongue that are shaped like a mushroom and number about200. Half have…
FACIAL ELECTROMYOGRAPHY
is one of the many applications of electromyography, where the various levels of endogenous electrical activity of any muscle groups…
FALLING OUT
is otherwise known as blacking out, or the falling sickess. Falling out is seemingly culture-bound, found primarily in the United…
FALSE REJECTION
is considered an inability to detect and internalize a signal or stimulus which it is presented through an auditory channel,…
FAMILY SYSTEMS MODEL,
was first proposed by the U.S. psychiatrist Murray Bowen in the 1950s (1913 - 1990) as an extension to the…