Category: F

A method of measuring personality in which a questionnaire is used to assess the tendency to be subservient to authority. F stands for Fascist, authoritarianism.  

The amount of frustration that a person can undergo without a disintegration of behavior.  

Dollard’s proposal that frustration always leads to some kind of aggression and that aggression is always the result of frustration.  

Any situation that prevents a person from obtaining a desired goal. The emotional tension that arises when impulses, actions, or desires are blocked or thwarted. Frustration is a profound sense of dissatisfaction and tension that arises from unresolved problems, unfulfilled needs, or obstacles on the path to a goal. In some individuals, this feeling can…

The act of obtaining sexual gratification from rubbing against or pressing against the desired person, often while in a crowded place. A frotteur is a person who derives sexual pleasure from rubbing against a stranger. Sexual gratification obtained by rubbing against a person of the opposite sex, as in a crowded tram. A mental illness…

Superficial local tissue destruction caused by freezing is limited in scope and does not destroy the full thickness of the skin, frostbite.  

Destruction of tissue by freezing. An injury caused by very severe cold which freezes tissue. Tissue damage, especially of the fingers, toes, ears, or nose, caused by freezing and generally due to prolonged exposure to very cold weather. The affected parts turn white and become numb. Gentle warming in tepid water, without rubbing, is the…

A disease of the anterior lobe of the pituitary gland occurring during adolescence, resulting in obesity and arrested development of the sex glands. A condition in which someone becomes obese and the genital system does not develop, caused by an adenoma of the pituitary gland. A disorder of the hypothalamus (part of the brain) affecting…

In labor relations, any number of benefits provided to employees in addition to salary.  

Orgasmic dysfunction in the female. The fact of being unable to experience orgasm, sexual pleasure or sexual desire. Sexual passivity or unresponsiveness, especially in a woman; coldness; inability to reach the climax of sexual intercourse (orgasm). Lack of sexual desire or inability to reach the climax of sexual excitement. Frigidity may affect either sex, but…