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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 …