GLOBUS HYSTERICUS
The distressing feeling of a lump in the throat,sometimes accompanied by choking sensations. When medical examination reveals that there is…
GRANDIOSE DELUSIONS
Delusions of great power, wealth, or self-importance. The patient believes he has a private key to Fort Knox, owns fifty-seven…
GRIESINGER, WILHELM (1817— 68)
A German by birth, Griesinger— the first systematic organicist in psychiatry—received his medical degree at Zurich. After studying for two…
GROUP FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF PSYCHIATRY
An invitational organization with a membership of approximately 185 psychiatrists organized into working committees to study specific problems in psychiatry,…
GENERAL ADAPTATION SYNDROME
The total mobilization of the organism’s resources in meeting situations of excessive stressThe concept grew out of Hans Selye’s research…
GESELL, ARNOLD LUCIUS (1880- 1961)
Gesell, the leading authority on child development, was bom in Wisconsin and graduated from the State University. After receiving his…
GIFTED CHILDREN
The 1 per cent of children with IQs above 135 or 140. Children with IQs above 170 or 180 are…
GILLES DE LA TOURETTE SYNDROME
(Tic de Guinon, tic convulsive, multiple tics with coprolalia, im- bacco). A rare disorder of unknown etiology found in Asia…
GALEN (C. 130-C. 220)
Galen was not only the most eminent physicianof his time, but influenced the entire course of both physical and mental…
GALTON, FRANCIS (1822-1911)
Galton, the first to make a systematic study of individual differences, was a native of Birmingham, England. In view of…
GANZFELD PHENOMENON
Ourvisual world is usually filled with a myriad of different shapes, colors and forms. Some objects are large, others small;…
GABRIEL'S SIMULTANEOUS TEST PROCEDURE (GABRI
one of several approaches for controlling the type I error rate by adjusting significance levels in multiple post hoc comparisons.
GAME REASONING
the reasoning that governs acceptable behaviour in a sporting context. Morality is sport is lower than morality in the rest…
GANGLIOSIDE
applied to any of the group of glycosphingolipids that are sugar-containing lipids that occur mainly in the tissues of the…
GCNETIC DETERMINISM
A doctrine that human and non-human animal behaviour and mental activity are controlled by then genetic constitution of the individual…
GENDER CONSTANCY
the a child's emerging sense of the permanence of being a boy or a girl and an understanding that occurs…
GENE IMPRINTING
the name that is given to the phenomenon where the expression of a gene is different depending on whether it…
GENERAL LANGUAGE DISABILITY
the term given to any language difficulty in children characterised by delayed speech, prolonged use of infantile speech and grammar…