- Conditioned reflex - an individually acquired, complex adaptive reaction of the organism of animals and humans, arising under certain conditions on the basis of the formation of temporary nervous connections between a conditioned (signal) stimulus and the unconditioned reflex act that reinforces this stimulus.
- Set (mental set) - an internal state of a person’s readiness to perceive, evaluate, and act in a specific way in relation to certain objects.
- Phasic - quickly passing.
- Facilitation - the process of an increase in a neuron’s response upon repeated exposure to some stimulus.
- Feminization - the process of accumulation of characteristics of the female sex.
- Femininity - the set of somatic, mental, and behavioral traits that distinguish a woman from a man.
- Fetal - embryonic, relating to the corresponding period of intrauterine development.
- Fetal period - the final period of prenatal development, which continues from the beginning of the 3rd month (counting from conception) until birth. During this period the fetus matures and all of its organs begin to function.
- Physiological psychology - a term introduced by W. Wundt to designate the field of experimental psychology that borrows methods and research findings from the physiology of the nervous system.
- Feminization - the development of secondary female characteristics in an individual of the male sex.
- Physiology of activity - a theory proposed by N.A. Bernstein to explain the mechanisms of motor learning and movement regulation. The basic principles of the physiology of activity are the position on the leading role of feedback signaling the effect of an action, and of a special brain apparatus that plans and programs the action (the model of the desired future).
- Philoembryogenesis - a term denoting the unity of the processes of phylogenetic (species) and ontogenetic (individual) development of organisms.
- Fistula - a channel between neighboring hollow organs that is not normally present. Using a salivary-gland fistula in dogs, I.P. Pavlov studied the characteristics of food-related conditioned reflexes.
- Flexion - bending, for example of a limb or the torso.
- Focus of maximum activity - an area of the cerebral cortex in which the greatest expression, compared to other areas, of one of the characteristics of the electroencephalogram is noted.
- Phonoreceptor(s) - specialized mechanoreceptors adapted to the perception of acoustic stimuli.
- Phosphene - a visual sensation arising in the absence of adequate stimulation of the visual analyzer; a phosphene can be caused by mechanical irritation of the eyeball, or by electrical stimulation of individual links of the visual analyzer.
- Functional subordination (functional subordination) - the union of separate simple actions or schemes into more complex structures of behavior.
- Functional system - a specific physiological apparatus, a mechanism of self-regulation and homeostasis, which carries out the selective engagement and combination of structures in the process of performing some next act of behavior or function of the organism.
- Functional state of a person - an integrative characteristic of a person’s states from the point of view of the effectiveness of the activity being performed and of the systems involved in its realization, according to criteria of reliability and internal cost of the activity.
Lectures and tutorial on "Psychophysiology"
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