FOCUSING POWER
the name for the degree to which a converging lens will cause parallel light rays to be refracted. A high…
FOLLOW-UP COUNSELING
1. The steps taken by a therapist to help a client with any ongoing problems or new symptoms that may…
FORCED COMPLIANCE EFFECT
the tendency of a person who has behaved in a way that contradicts their attitude to subsequently alter the attitude…
FORENSIC SOCIAL WORK
Application of social work principles and techniques to legal issues or situations involving the law, civil and criminal. It includes…
FORMAL GRAMMAR
a term that is applied to the description of language in terms of its form and structure as opposed to…
FORMICOPHILIA
a term that is used to describe the sexual interest and pleasure that is derived from small animals, insects and…
FOUNDER EFFECT
the name that is applied to the occurrence of a mutation of an increased frequency in a population because of…
FREEZING BEHAVIOR
the term for a form of passive avoidance where a person remains still and makes no effort to run or…
FREQUENCY TABLE
a numerical summary of the frequency of occurrences of the particular values of a measurement.
FRUSTRATION-REGRESSION HYPOTHESIS
The theory that frustration often leads to behavior characteristic of a much earlier period of life and was proposed in…
FUNCTIONAL AGE
term for a person's age that is determined as a measure of their functional capabilities that have been indexed to…
FUNCTIONAL DISTANCE
the degree to which an arrangement of residential faculties will influence the probability of any unplanned social interactions by the…
FUNCTIONAL PLASTICITY
1. Adaptive change. 2. Ability of one part of our brain to adapt to losing another part. One hemisphere will…
FUNNEL SEQUENCE
the term applied to a method for structuring the order of questions in surveys and interviews that starts with general…
FACIAL EXPRESSION
was first theorized and discussed by the British biologist Charles Darwin (1809 - 1882) as a form of communication between…
FACTOR ANALYSIS
is the mathematical process during which a larger set of variables is reduced to better accommodate the experimental design to…