FORCED-CHOICE TEST
term that is used in a signal detection test where several intervals are given with only one having the signal…
FRUSTRATION
1. thwarting of impulses and actions. 2. Emotional state when thwarting happens. 3. Psychoanalytic theory. Damming up of psychic energy…
FUZZY TRACE THEORY
a theory proposing that information is encoded on a continuum from precise traces to fuzzy traces. Developmental differences in cognition…
GENDER SCHEMA
the term that applies to the organized set of beliefs and expectations that guides a person's understanding of gender or…
INTERSTIMULUS INTERVAL (1S1)
Stimulus and the time between presentations, and are timed usually from one end of the presentation stimulus and to the…
KUDER PREFERENCE RECORD
Individuals are required to select their preferred activity from a series of three choice items. It will yield the percentage…
FALSE-ALARM RATE
is the number or proportion of incorrect answers such as "Yes" or "No" given as final responses to tasks within…
FAST MAPPING
is the seemingly fast ability for a young people, especially babies to learn entirely new words on the general understanding…
FILIAL IMPRINTING
term that is used to describe the learning process where a young animal becomes attached to its parent and copies…
FORENSIC PSYCHOLOGY
This involves the application of psychological principles and techniques to situations involving the law or legal systems that are criminal…
FRUSTRATIVE NONREWARD HYPOTHESIS
a proposition that consistently withholding reinforcement of responses during operant or instrumental conditioning leads to an internal state of frustration…
GENDER SCRIPT
a temporally organised gender related sequence of events. A female gender script can be laundry, cooking and male gender script…
GENITAL EROTICISM
the term that is used to describe the arousal of sexual excitement by stimulation of the genital organs.
GONADOSTAT THEORY
the name of the mechanism that is associated with the initiation of puberty where ovarian or testicular hormones regulate hypothalamic…
GROWTH GROUP
the term that describes the group that focuses on the growth and development of each individual member. See encounter group;…