| 1. | F-scale | (Fascism scale) is a personality test (psychometric assessment) that attempts to quantify authoritarian tendencies. The F-scale was designed on the basis of Frankfurt School Marxist More… 1.9 KB |
| 2. | F65 | pronounced : (eff-six-five) or (eff-sixty-five), It refers to a person who suffers from a paraphilia or disorder of sexual preference. The expression derives from the International More… 1.0 KB |
| 3. | FLO | (For Lovers Only) Is a methodology of marital reconstruction and enhancement that was created by Elizabeth Mack in 2002. FLO differs from marital and relationship therapies by focusing on More… 1.2 KB |
| 4. | FMRIB Software Library | The FMRIB Software Library (FSL) is a software library containing image analysis and statistical tools for functional, structural and diffusion MRI brain imaging data. FSL is available as More… 0.3 KB |
| 5. | FRAME-S | Is a psychological therapeutic model developed by Staffan Garpebring. The model is built around a psychoeducational practice focused on treating common stress related problems youth More… 1.7 KB |
| 6. | Fa afafine | Fa'afafine (also spelled fafafige, faafafine, fafafine) ; a third gender specific to Samoan culture. Fa'afafine are biologically men who in childhood choose by their nature to be More… 2.7 KB |
| 7. | Fabianism movement | The Fabian Society is a British intellectual socialist movement, whose purpose is to advance the principles of Social democracy via gradualist and reformist, rather than revolutionary means. More… 0.8 KB |
| 8. | Fables test | A test in wich the subject must interpret fables. Fable tests have been used as items on the StanfordBinet intelligence scale and also as projective techniques. |
| 9. | Fabulation | Telling fantastic stories as though they were true-though not involuntarily as in the case of people suffering disturbances of MEMORY (CONFABULATION) |
| 10. | Face perception | Is the process by which the brain and mind understand and interpret the face, particularly the human face. The face is an important site for the identification of others and conveys More… 1.2 KB |
| 11. | Face recognition | Concerned with the processes involved in the way we recognise faces. An increasingly important area of research in COGNITION and PERCEPTION. |
| 12. | Face validity | Extent to which a measure seems to measure a phenomenon on face value, or intuition. |
| 13. | Face-to-face group | SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGICAL term for a small group of people in close enough physical proximity for each person in the group to interact directly with each of the others. Such a group is usually More… 0.2 KB |
| 14. | Facework | In SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY, sometimes used to describe social rituals that save 'face' or enhance a public image at the expense of honest EMOTION. |
| 15. | Facial action coding system | (FACS); A breakdown of facial expressions into 46 component parts that can express facial characteristics of anger, contempt, disgust, happiness, sadness, and surprise. |
| 16. | Facial expression | It results from one or more motions or positions of the muscles of the face. These movements convey the emotional state of the individual to observers. Facial expressions are a form of More… 3.1 KB |
| 17. | Facial nerve | The 7th cranial nerve, it is a mixed nerve having efferent fibers to the facial muscles, the platysmal muscle of the neck and the sublingual glands and efferent fibers from the taste buds of More… 0.2 KB |
| 18. | Facilitation | 1- Increased ease of performance, as measured by efficiency. 2- Increased ease of transmission across a synapse because of practice. 3- Increased ease of transmission across a synapse due to More… 0.4 KB |
| 19. | Facticity | a term associated with Sartre, which deals with the totality of conditions that exist for an individual and which are capable of being known to be true or false. |
| 20. | Factitious disorders | Are conditions in which a person acts as if he or she has an illness by deliberately producing, feigning, or exaggerating symptoms. Factitious disorder by proxy is a condition in which a More… 4.2 KB |
| 21. | Factor analysis | It is a statistical method used to explain variability among observed variables in terms of fewer unobserved variables called factors. The observed variables are modeled as linear More… 5.8 KB |
| 22. | Factor axes | A set of coordinates that shows the relationship of factors to each other and to the correlations in the table or matrix. These axes are discovered by a process of rotation and represent the More… 0.3 KB |
| 23. | Factor configuration | In centroid factor analysis, the positions of the system of vectors or lines that represent the various tests in the correlation matrix. The angle of the vectors with respect to each other More… 0.3 KB |
| 24. | Factor loading | The degree to which a given factor is correlated with the various tests that make up the set of correlation on which a factor analysis has been carried out. |
| 25. | Factor reflection | Factor reflection: changing the algebraic signs among the factor loadings in order to maintain consistency among the factors in the matrix. |