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Factor analysis refers to statistical technique used to reduce large amounts of data (e.g. answers to personality questionnaires given to large numbers of people) into groups of items, or factors, that correlate highly with each other but not with other items.

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Factor analytic approach is defined as a statistical method usually used in test construction to determine whether potential items are or are not highly related to each other.

Factorial design refers to an experimental design containing more than one independent variable in which every level of each independent variable is combined with every other level. Moreover, It is a research method that can study more than one variable at a time; a research design that includes two or more factors.

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Factorial design experiment refers to an experimental study that involves two (2) or more independent variables

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Factors refers to the independent variables whose levels are combined in a factorial experiment. In Psychometric approaches to intelligence, a set of related mental skills, such as verbal or spatial skills that underlies intellectual functioning.

Faculty psychology is defined as the belief that the mind consists of several powers or faculties. It is the theory that different mental abilities, such as reading or computation, are independent and autonomous functions, carried out in different parts of the brain.

FAD is the acronym of Flavin Adenine Dinucleotide which serves as an electron carrier in bioenergetics.

Fading is defined as the process of gradually altering the intensity of a stimulus; it is the temporary use of a prompt to establish a simple discrimination.

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