GRAPHOLOGY
the term used to describe the analysis of a person's handwriting as a means of inferring stable personality characteristics or…
GREAT CHAIN OF BEING
Attributed to Plato. Seeing creation as a continuously linked hierarchy from God through heavenly beings, humans, animals, plants and matter…
GROUP DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEMS (GDSS)
the technology that is used to improve speed, quality and efficiency of a group's decision making and helps in avoiding…
GROUP MARRIAGE
Family pattern found in some indigenous cultures and minority religious groups where several men and women live together, sharing household…
GROUP SOCIALIZATION 1
1. Interactions between a person and the group beginning when they join and ending when they leave. 2. Socialisation of…
GUARDIANSHIP
Term for a legal arrangement that will place the care of a person into the hands of another person if…
GUILTY BUT MENTALLY ILL (GBMI)
the name for a court judgement when the defendant pleads insanity as their defense. If accepted they are sent to…
GYNANDROMORPH
the name of an organism with male and female features usually with male on one side and female on the…
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…
GENERALIZED IMITATION
the name for imitation of forms of behaviour that, until presented by a model, had been previously unseen. Presumably this…
GENETIC CONSTRAINTS ON LEARNING
the name that is given to the concept that was prominent from the 1960s to the early 1980s where species-…