Glossary F

Feedback mechanisms is a term in systems theory which refers to the operations in an open system that produce adaptive self regulation by identifying and responding to changes in the environment.

Feeding disorder of infancy or early childhood refers to a disorder involving the persistent failure to eat, leading to a loss of weight or failure to gain weight. Moreover, Feeding disorder of infancy or early childhood is a disorder characterized by a sudden or marked deceleration of weight gain in an infant or a young child (under age 6) and a slowing or disruption of emotional and social development.

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Deutsch: Gefühl / Español: Sentimiento / Português: Sentimento / Français: Sentiment / Italiano: Sentimento /

Feeling refers to a function of personality in which individuals attend to subjective experiences of pleasure, pain, anger, or other feelings. Its polar opposite is thinking.

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Feeling of knowing refers to a feeling that allows people to predict beforehand whether they will be able to remember something.

Feelings is defined as the basic elements of emotion that accompany each sensation. Wundt believed that emotions consist of various combinations of elemental feelings. ( Please see also Tridimensional theory of feeling. ) Feelings include emotions such as happiness, satisfaction, pleasure, anger, and irritation.

Feelings of inferiority is a term which according to Adler are those feelings that all humans try to escape by becoming powerful or superior.

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Feisty may be defined as: (1) Spirited; full of courage, spunk, or energy. (2) Touchy, irritable, or ill-tempered.

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Felicity conditions refers to a condition that must be present for a speech act to be understood as sincere or valid.