FORCED DISTRIBUTION
a rating system where the raters must use a prescribed number of entries for each level of the rating scale…
FORMAL LOGIC
the name given to the system of prescribed rules for generating valid conclusions or predictions from initial axiomatic assumptions or…
FORNICATION
the term applied to the voluntary sexual intercourse between any two people who are not married to each other. The…
FOUR-CARD SELECTION PROBLEM
the name of a problem solving task using four cards, each has a letter on one side and a number…
FRAME PROBLEM
the term applied to the technical difficulty that arises in artificial intelligence and computational models of human cognition that involves…
FREE RIDER
a term used to describe a person who gives little or no effort to a joint endeavour but will gain…
FRENCH KISS
term for the type of sexual arousal where 2 people will kiss with their mouths open so that their tongues…
FREUD, SIGMUND
He pioneered psychoanalysis after studying neurology and turning to mental disorders like hysteria. He developed a method of free association…
FROMM, ERICH
A German psychoanalyst who developed the broad cultural and personal approach to the search for meaning, personality development, enrichment of…
FUNCTIONAL AMNESIA
a psychiatric disorder with amnesia for autobiographical events. Episodic memory is lost about yourself as is semantic memory when a…
FUNCTIONAL ELECTRIC STIMULATION (FES)
the term given to the application of electric current to peripheral nerves through the use of electrodes in order to…
FUNCTIONAL PSYCHOSIS 1
Psychotic state for which no specific neurological or other physical pathology is demonstrated. 2. Obsolete name for any severe mental…
FUSIFORM GYRUS
the ridge on the lower surface of each temporal lobe in the brain. It lies between the inferior temporal gyrus…
FABRICATION
is a term which can be applied to a number of examples; for example, fabrication may refer to the act…
FACIAL MUSCLE
is an umbrella term used to describe any of the muscles which are found in the face which are responsible…
FACTOR METHOD
is a basic and simple term which is used to describe the method during which factors which are extracted from…
FAIL-SAFE DESIGN
refers to the design of a specific object, where the project team would have taken all reasonable steps to remove…
FALSE ALARM
is one of the signal detection tasks, where an incorrect observation by a participant in an experiment may be present…