GABA AGONISTS
These are the compounds that augment the effect at GABA receptor sites and on the action of GABA. There are…
GENDER ASSIGNMENT
the term used for the classification of an infant at birth as either male or female. Children born with ambiguous…
GENDER-ROLE SOCIALIZATION
the conditioning of people to the roles, expectations and the behaviours that society prescribes for males and females.
GENERALIZATION GRADIENT, EXCITATION PATTERN
The spatial pattern of responses to sound in the auditory system. Refers to the envelope of the displacement pattern on…
GENITAL LOVE
a term used in psychoanalytic theory and is the sexually mature love of another person achieved during the genital stage…
GESTALT PSYCHOLOGY
The psychological approach that focuses on the dynamic organization of experience into patterns or configurations. Proposed as a revolt against…
GRAPHORRHEA
the term used to describe the writing of long lists of incoherent, meaningless words that will sometimes occurs in the…
GROUP-SERVING BIAS
The cognitive tendencies that contribute to an overvaluing of a person's group, particularly the tendency to credit the group for…
INTERFERENCE THEORY
Hypothesis dealing with forgetting. It is due to competition from other memories learnt and is produced by prior knowledge or…
INTERPRETATION
Psychotherapy. Explanation by therapist ion terms meaningful to the person and their issues, behaviours or feelings. Made along the lines…
INTRAGROUP CONFLICT
Confrontation or disagreement between two or more members of a single group. Compare intfrgroup conflict
INTUITIVE JUDGMENT
Subjective feelings and the decision reached on the basis the cannot be articulated easily and not fully conscious. See intuition
ITEM RESPONSE THEORY (IRT)
a probability theory of measurement stating that the correct answer to an item is a function of an underlying trait…
JOST'S LAW
the principle that the newer of two associations of equal strength will show more loss over time than will the…
LANGUAGE DEFICIT
A delay in the normal speech and language development of a child due to some neurological disfunction.
EXTRANEOUS VARIABLE
is a variable which inadvertantly effects the course of an experiment, specifically the dependent variable, normally without the knowledge of…
FACTOR METHOD
is a basic and simple term which is used to describe the method during which factors which are extracted from…