Glossary F

Futilitarian means holding the belief that human striving is useless and also refers to a person who holds such belief.

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Future criminology refers to the study of likely futures as they impinge on Crime and its control.

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Future projection means playing a situation that could occur at some time in the future. For example, playing out an interaction with a future son-in-law

Deutsch: Zukunftsorientierte Frage / Español: Pregunta centrada en el futuro / Português: Questão focada no futuro / Français: Question orientée vers l'avenir / Italiano: Domanda orientata al futuro /

Future-focused question refers to a type of structured interview question in which applicants are given a situation and asked how they would handle it.

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Futures research refers to a multidisciplinary branch of operations research whose principle aim is to facilitate long-range planning based on 1. forecasting from the past supported by mathematical models ; 2. Cross-disciplinary treatment of its subject matter; 3. systematic use of expert judgment, and; 4. a systems-analytical approach to its problems.

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Futurist refers to a person one who studies the future.

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Fuzzy traces is a term used in Fuzzy-trace theory zjaz refer to imprecise memory representations that are more easily accessed, generally require less effort to use, and are less susceptible to interference and forgetting than verbatim traces.

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Fuzzy-trace theory refers to the theory proposed by Brainerd and Reyna that postulates that people encode experiences on a continuum from literal, verbatim traces to fuzzy, ghost-like traces. Likewise, it is Brainerd and Reyna's theory that proposes that information is encoded on a continuum from verbatim to fuzzy, ghost-like traces, and that developmental differences in many aspects of cognition can be attributed to age differences in encoding and in differences in sensitivity to output interference.