GENDER TYPING
the name of the expectations about people's behaviour that are based on their biological sex.
GENITAL PERSONALITY
Psychoanalytic theory. A sexually mature adult personality developing in the final stage of psychosexual development. Person has a resolved oedipus…
GRADE EQUIVALENT
The test score expressed in terms of a grade norm. For example, if a 3rd grader
GUESS-WHO TECHNIQUE
Term used for rating personalities used in schools where a student will give a short word picture for personality types…
INTERVENTION RESEARCH
Activities designed to measure how much better a situation is after modification that is systematic and to measure or has…
ITEM VALIDITY
In a test or experiment the extent to which an individual item measures what it purports to measure.
LABELING THEORY
Describing an individual as deviant and then treating them as such may result in mental disorder or delinquency also called…
EXTRANEOUS VARIABLE
is a variable which inadvertantly effects the course of an experiment, specifically the dependent variable, normally without the knowledge of…
FATHER-DAUGHTER INCEST
is an umbrella term which is used to describe any of the sexual relationships or relations between a father and…
FINE MOTOR
This term is used to describe the skills and activities that need coordination of our small muscles to make precise…
FRACTIONATION
the name that is given to the psychophysical procedure used to scale the magnitudes of a sensation. A person might…
GARDEN-PATH SENTENCE
Sentence where structural cues, lexical ambiguity or a combination of both mislead the reader or listener to an incorrect interpretation…
GENDER-ROLE SOCIALIZATION
the conditioning of people to the roles, expectations and the behaviours that society prescribes for males and females.
GENITAL STAGE
Psychoanalytic theory. Final stage of psychosexual development, reached in puberty. Oedipus complex resolved, erotic interest and activity focused on sexual…
ITINERANT TEACHER
a commiting teacher, who travels to a couple of schools or classrooms as to provide specialized instruction for children.