GUARDIAN AD LITEM
Person appointed by the court to represent in a lawsuit someone who is unable either by age or by mental…
GUILT CULTURE
term applied to the trend or organising principle in a society that is characterised by the use of guilt in…
GYMNEMIC ACID
The name of an extract of the Indian plant Gymnema sylvestris that is noted for its capacity to block sweet…
GABAA RECEPTOR
The other GABA receptor found at synapses of neurons. It is the predominant inhibitory receptor in the central nervous system.…
GAMBLERS ANONYMOUS (GA)
an an organisation of men and women who share experiences, strength and hope with each other to recover from compulsive…
GASTRIC MOTILITY
The movements of the stomach muscles caused by digestive processes. Movements may occur in the absence of food in the…
GAY LIBERATION
The social movement seeking to redress legal, social and economic discrimination against homosexual people by advocating equal rights for them…
GENDER CONCEPT
The cultured role of each gender. There are expected roles for males and females that are based on biological sex…
GENDER TYPING
the name of the expectations about people's behaviour that are based on their biological sex.
GENERAL GENETIC LAW OF CULTURAL DEVELOPMENT
The idea that a child's development is embedded in culture and occurs on two planes: first the social, between individuals,…
GENERALIZATION GRADIENT, EXCITATION PATTERN
The spatial pattern of responses to sound in the auditory system. Refers to the envelope of the displacement pattern on…
GENETIC CODE
These are the instructions in the genes that tell a cell how to make a certain protein and resides in…
GENETIC THEORY
1. the view that behaviour can be explained in terms of hereditary and development. 2. The theoretical principles accepted in…
GENITAL STAGE
Psychoanalytic theory. Final stage of psychosexual development, reached in puberty. Oedipus complex resolved, erotic interest and activity focused on sexual…
GERIATRICS
the branch of medicine that deals with old age and the treatment of physical and mental disorders in older adults.…
GESCHWIND'S THEORY
The hypothesis that excessive intrauterine exposure to androgens will inhibit development of the thymus gland and left cerebral hemisphere, explaining…
GIVEN-NEW DISTINCTION
seen in sentence and linguistic structure and is the distinction between what we know and what is new information to…