FILIAL RESPONSIBILITY
a term that is used to describe a person's sense of duty towards members of their own family and in…
FINGER TAPPING TEST
the name that is given to a test that is a measure of a person's fine motor speed when they…
FISHER'S R TO Z TRANSFORMATION
the mathematical transformation of the product-moment correlation coefficient to a new statistic whose sampling distribution is the normal distribution. It…
FIXATION REFLEX
the term that is given to a reflex that orients the eyes onto a fixed target. It uses cortical and…
FLIGHT INTO ILLNESS
1. The tendency a person has to exaggerate minor complaints in order to avoid stressful situations. 2. Psychotherapy. Sudden development…
FLOWING CONSCIOUSNESS
the term that describes a pleasurable sense of flow and the effortlessness that accompanies skilled and non-conflicting activities.
FLUTTERING HEARTS
a visual illusion where figures in one colour are presented on a background with the same level of brightness but…
FOCUS GROUP
group of about 12 people with common characteristics who have been selected to discuss a topic. A leader starts the…
FOLK BILINGUALISM
a type of bilingualism that is associated with working-class immigrant communities where the native language is primarily oral and its…
FOOT-CANDLE (FC)
a term that was used to describe luminescence that has been replaced by the lux. One foot candle is equal…
FOREGROUND-BACKGROUND
used in our perception and is the distinction between the object of attention, which is the foreground and details in…
FORGETTING
the term that is given to a person's inability to remember or recall a thing that should have been remembered.…
FORWARD SELECTION
the variable selection or model building technique that is used in multiple regressions where variables are added to the model…