FALSE-CONSENSUS EFFECT
is a popular social phenomena where an individual believes that own beliefs, ideals, concepts, opinions, values and attitudes are held…
FATHER FIXATION
has been observed in a range of cultures, typically these are in western cultures, a father fixation implies an incredibly…
FILIAL RESPONSIBILITY
a term that is used to describe a person's sense of duty towards members of their own family and in…
FORMATIVE EVALUATION
the name of the process that is concerned with helping to improve or guide the development of a program through…
FULLY FUNCTIONING PERSON
a person with a healthy personality, who experiences freedom of choice and action, is creative, exhibits the qualities of existential…
GAME REASONING
the reasoning that governs acceptable behaviour in a sporting context. Morality is sport is lower than morality in the rest…
GENDER TYPING
the name of the expectations about people's behaviour that are based on their biological sex.
GENITAL PERSONALITY
Psychoanalytic theory. A sexually mature adult personality developing in the final stage of psychosexual development. Person has a resolved oedipus…
GRADE EQUIVALENT
The test score expressed in terms of a grade norm. For example, if a 3rd grader
GUESS-WHO TECHNIQUE
Term used for rating personalities used in schools where a student will give a short word picture for personality types…
INTERVENTION RESEARCH
Activities designed to measure how much better a situation is after modification that is systematic and to measure or has…
ITEM VALIDITY
In a test or experiment the extent to which an individual item measures what it purports to measure.
LABELING THEORY
Describing an individual as deviant and then treating them as such may result in mental disorder or delinquency also called…
EXTRANEOUS VARIABLE
is a variable which inadvertantly effects the course of an experiment, specifically the dependent variable, normally without the knowledge of…
FATHER-DAUGHTER INCEST
is an umbrella term which is used to describe any of the sexual relationships or relations between a father and…
FINE MOTOR
This term is used to describe the skills and activities that need coordination of our small muscles to make precise…
FRACTIONATION
the name that is given to the psychophysical procedure used to scale the magnitudes of a sensation. A person might…
GARDEN-PATH SENTENCE
Sentence where structural cues, lexical ambiguity or a combination of both mislead the reader or listener to an incorrect interpretation…