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Frail older adults is defined as older adults who have physical disabilities, are very ill, and may have cognitive or psychological disorders and who need assistance with everyday tasks.

Frame-of-reference training is defined as a method of training raters in which the rater is provided with job-related information, a chance to practice ratings, examples of ratings made by experts, and the rationale behind the expert ratings.

Framing means in thought, the terms in which a problem is stated or the way that it is structured; whether messages stress potential gains (positively framed) or potential losses (negatively framed)

Framing effect means decision-making bias caused by a propensity to evaluate outcomes as positive or negative changes from their current state.

Framingham heart study refers to the large-scale longitudinal study following over 5,000 residents of Framingham, Massachusetts, that has contributed to our understanding of heart disease.

Francesco Petrarch (1304- 1374) refers to a Renaissance Humanist referred to by many historians as the Father of the Renaissance who attacked Scholasticism as stifling the human spirit and urged that the classics be studied not for their religious implications but because they were the works of unique human beings. He insisted that God had given humans their vast potential so that it could be utilized. Petrarch's views about human potential helped stimulate the many artistic and literary achievements that characterized the Renaissance.

Francis Bacon (1561-1626) was a famous person who urged an inductive, practical science that was free from the misconceptions of the past and from any theoretical influences.

Francis Cecil Sumner was the first African-American to earn a Ph.D. in psychology. He was was born in Arkansas in 1895.