Category: F
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Federal role
The role of the federal government in education, health, and other state and local programs.
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Fevundity
The ability to produce offspring especially in a rapid manner and in large numbers.
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Fechner’s law
The strength of a sensation is proportional to the logarithm of physical stimulus intensity.
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Fecal-oral route
Leaving one’s body with the feces and later entering another person’s body by way of the mouth as in contaminated water or food.
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Fecal
Pertaining to feces.
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Feature detectors
Neurons that respond to specific aspects of a stimulus such as movement or color.
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Feasibility
A measure of the workability of a plan or proposal.
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Fear response
According to Mowrer and Miller, a response to a threatening or noxious situation that is covert and unobservable but which is assumed to function as a stimulus to produce measurable physiological changes in the body and observable overt behavior, fear drive.
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Fear of success
The tendency for a person to worry about being more successful than others because it may jeopardize his or her interpersonal relations.
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Fear drive
According to Mowrer and Miller, an unpleasant internal state that impels avoidance. The need to reduce a fear drive can form the basis for new learning.