INTRAPERSONAL
Operating and describing factors or constructs occurring within the person, with things such as decisions, attitudes, self esteem, self concept…
INVARIANT FEATURE
An object that does not change or its characteristic when the object is viewed under different circumstances. Features that are…
JUNGIAN TYPOLOGY
a theory of personality that puts individuals into separate categories according to attitudes and dominant functions of the psyche.
KNOWLEDGE FUNCTION OF AN ATTITUDE
A positive attitude toward a friend may assist in attributing that person's negative behaviour to situational factors rather that personal…
EXTRAPYRAMIDAL EFFECTS
is an umbrella term used to describe any reactions which involve the extra-pyramidal tract which is associated with the central…
FACE VALIDITY
is a measure of the extent the items included within an experiment appear to be appropriate for what they are…
FACTOR ROTATION
is a term associated with factor analysis, in that factor rotation is the repositioning of factors to a newer, more…
FALSE POSITIVE
is considered the binary opposite to a false negative where in diagnostics for example, an individual may not actually have…
FASCINATION
has a range of potential applications to real-life situations, for example fascination, may refer to an individual's profound interest in…
FEMALE SEXUAL AROUSAL DISORDER
the failure in a woman to be able to attain or to maintain an adequate response in the excitement or…
FILIAL IMPRINTING
term that is used to describe the learning process where a young animal becomes attached to its parent and copies…
FLAGELLATION
a term that is applied to one person who whips another or submits to whipping. It can be a form…
FOCUS OF CONVENIENCE
seen in George Kelly's personality theory and is the name of the set of phenomena to which any given theory…
FOREWARNING OF PERSUASIVE POSITION
the term applied to the receipt of information that a subsequent communication will contain arguments for a particular attitudinal position.
FRAGMENTATION
a term that describes the separation or the division of something into pieces or fragments. It is the name of…
FREQUENCY POLYGON
the name given to the graph that depicts a statistical distribution that is made up of lines connecting the peaks…
FULFILLMENT MODEL
a basic model of personality theory based on assumptions of primary motivation being self-fulfilment such as the drive to fulfil…
FUNCTIONAL JOB ANALYSIS (FJA)
Form of job analysis where tasks are rated on degrees of complexity they entail in dealing with people, data and…