FORENSIC NEUROPSYCHOLOGY
the application of clinical neuropsychology to issues of both civil and criminal law, particularly those relating to claims of brain…
FORM QUALITY
a term in Gestalt psychology where the emergent feature makes a thing recognisable even after it has been transformed.
FORMES FRUSTES
a French term for the indefinite or the atypical symptoms of a disease. It is French for coarse forms.
FOSTER HOME
1. A home that is temporary for a child away from his original family. 2. A home for people with…
FRAGMENTATION
a term that describes the separation or the division of something into pieces or fragments. It is the name of…
FREE MORPHEME
Linguistics. a morpheme that can stand alone as a word in its own right. Free morphemes are contrasted with bound…
FREE-FLOATING FEAR
the term for a generalized sense of fear that is not directed toward a particular object or situation.
FREQUENCY POLYGON
the name given to the graph that depicts a statistical distribution that is made up of lines connecting the peaks…
FRINGE CONSCIOUSNESS
These are the aspects of our consciousness and experience that lack the focal and perceptual qualities. They vary a lot…
FRUSTRATION
1. thwarting of impulses and actions. 2. Emotional state when thwarting happens. 3. Psychoanalytic theory. Damming up of psychic energy…
FUNCTION WORD
a word with little or no meaning when by itself but plays an important role in our language. Examples are…
FUNCTIONAL CONFORMANCE
Environmental design. Provision of the objects and equipment needed to adapt an environment to a given set of functional uses…
FUNCTIONAL MEASUREMENT
a procedure to measure the functional experience of stimuli as it changes across different contexts.2 or more stimuli are observed…
FUNDAMENTAL SKILL
1. The ability needed to perform a task or understand an idea. 2. The basic ability necessary to function competently…
FACIAL ANGLE
are a set of angles which allow the quantification of facial protrusion and movements using an established and normally standardized…
FACT SEEKER
is considered the binary opposite to the fact giver, in which they actively seek out information and factual knowledge during…
FALSE POSITIVE
is considered the binary opposite to a false negative where in diagnostics for example, an individual may not actually have…
FAMILIARITY
is a generic feeling in which a situation, event, place, person or object directly provokes a subjective feeling of recognition…