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FORENSIC PSYCHOLOGY

This involves the application of psychological principles and techniques to situations involving the law or legal systems that are criminal…

FORMAL FAL

a term used when involving a violation of a principle that is in formal logic. It is either affirming the…

FORMICATION

a term used to describe a very distressing sensation of ants and other insects crawling on a person's skin. It…

FOSTERING

the name that is given to the process of giving care to a child or person in a family setting…

FRAGRANT

1. This denotes a smell that is like vanilla and flowers. 2. one of the 4 primary odour qualities in…

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…

FRINGER

name used to describe a person on the margins of a social group, who is neither genuinely accepted nor clearly…

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…

FUNCTIONAL PAIN

the term given to any pain that does not have a known organic cause.

FUNGIFORM PAPILLAE

These are swellings on the front of the tongue that are shaped like a mushroom and number about200. Half have…

F RATIO

which has an assigned symbol of F is used in multivariate analysis of variance looking at the ration of explained…

FACIAL ELECTROMYOGRAPHY

is one of the many applications of electromyography, where the various levels of endogenous electrical activity of any muscle groups…

FACTOR

as a noun is used in a range of applications, by as a general rule of thumb, a factor is…

FACULTY

has a range of applications to a variety of real-life situations, for example a faculty may refer to a group…

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,…