Formal reasoning

Formal operational thinking

Formal operational stage

Form stream

Fixed system of reference

Finite state machine

Field experiment

Feature-tracking

Feature detector

Fast mapping

Falsifiable theory

False-belief tasks

False uniqueness

an aspect of the false consensus effect, where the subject underestimates the number of people who share their particular skills and abilities.

a series of tasks used in the study of theory of mind which provide a test case for finding out whether children really understand the relationship between beliefs and behaviour.

a theory capable of generating hypotheses that show it to be false and which is an essential feature of scientific method.

the process whereby the child learns new nouns and verbs by relating a novel object or action to a novel word via the formation of a new concept in as little as a single experience.

the idea deriving from early neuro-physical studies of the visual cortex that an individual cell (specifically a simple cell) could signal the presence of an individual line or edge of a specific orientation at a specific position in the image.

the process thought to be used by the long range motion system by which image motion is recovered by tracking a distinct feature of the image from one moment to the next.

Fiedler's Contingency Theory

in the study and assessment of leadership amongst social groups, a method which takes account of the leader's personal style appropriate to a given situation.

an experiment that is more naturalistic in content than that performed in a laboratory, in that it is in less danger of distorting the evidence by taking the phenomenon out of its true context.

a simple theoretical mechanism which shows how each word in a string of words can be related to the next.

in environmental psychology, the child's use of known locations - home, friends' houses, shops, school - to provide an understanding of large-scale place.

the neural pathway in the visual cortex thought to be concerned primarily with the analysis of the stimulus's spatial structure. See also motion stream.

The fourth of Piaget's four stages of cognitive development, emphasising abstract thinking and logical reasoning.

a term defined by Jean Piaget to describe the stage, arrived at by around age 11 or 12, when children are able to first think in abstract, logical and systematic ways.

the type of reasoning needed for solving formal problems relating, in particular, to logic and mathematics.

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