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Fecundity Productive or creative power. A common example is to say that someone has fecundity of the mind – meaning, the person…

Feature Detectors The ability to detect certain types of stimuli, like movements, shape, and angles, requires specialized cells in the brain called…

Family Therapy Family therapy is a type of therapy in which members of a family are treated. They may not be in…

False Consensus Effect The false consensus effect is an overestimation of how much other people share our beliefs and behaviours. For example,…

Factor Analysis Okay, we know how most students feel about statistics, so we will make this as quick and painless as possible.…

Face Validity This is a very basic form of validity in which you determine if a measure appears (on the face of…

Extrovert (Extroversion) An Extrovert is a person who tends to focus on the external world and people. People often associate being socially…

Extrinsic Motivation Why do you work, go to class, or study for a test? Do you do it because you want to…

Extraneous Variable As we all know by now, psychologists like to control things — in particular, we like to establish as much…

Extinction Extinction is from conditioning and refers to the reduction of some response that the organism currently or previously produced. In Classical…