Psychology Glossary: F Index
These are brief definitions of psychology terms beginning with F. Click on the term for a more detailed definition.
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The fight-or-flight response, also known as the acute stress response, refers to a psychological reaction that occurs in the presence of something that is terrifying, either mentally or physically...
Fixation refers to a persistent focus of the id’s pleasure-seeking energies on an earlier stage of psychosexual development...
A fixed-interval schedule is a schedule of reinforcement where the first response is rewarded only after a specified amount of time has elapsed...
A fixed-ratio schedule is a schedule of reinforcement where a response is reinforced only after a specified number of responses...
Refers to he ability to reason quickly and to think abstractly...
In Piaget's stages of cognitive development, the formal operation stage is a period between age twelve and adulthood...
