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F-Scale (Fascism Scale):

Fertility: in Sociology the term is used to refer to the actual number of live births in a certain population in one year.

Flooding: a Behaviourist therapy which gives the client maximum exposure to a feared stimulus until the fear subsides, thus extinguishing the learned response. The exposure can be real or imagined.
Application of the technique needs to be finely judged as high anxiety is a critical factor in the process. While the therapy has been famously successful in many instances, debilitating stress reactions in some clients have made the technique controversial.

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Forebrain: that part of the brain comprising the cerebral cortex, the basal ganglia, the limbic system and the thalamus. See also cerebrum.

Formation: the development of a person's character, personality and motivations as a whole.

Frame of Reference: a structure of schemas (values, beliefs, memories) on which we evaluate new information or development of thinking and form primary states and meta-states.

Freudian: something derived from the work of Sigmund Freud or a follower of his work.