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| Terms | Type | Definition |
|---|---|---|
| gambling task | task | A class of tasks in which subjects make decisions about chance gambles. |
| gaze | concept | The act of fixating the eyes onto a location. |
| gender discrimination task | task | |
| general knowledge task | task | |
| generalization | concept | The act of transferring knowledge learned from one event to a novel event that is similar in some respect. |
| generic knowledge | concept | Generic knowledge is knowledge that is applicable not just to a single entity but to a class of entities. |
| gestalt | concept | a collection of physical, biological, psychological or symbolic entities that creates a unified concept, configuration or pattern which is greater than the sum of its parts (of a character, personality, or being). |
| Glasgow Coma Scale | task | is a neurological scale that aims to give a reliable, objective way of recording the conscious state of a person for initial as well as subsequent assessment. A patient is assessed against the criteria of the scale, and the resulting points give a patient score between 3 (indicating deep unconsciousness) and either 14 (original scale) or 15 (the more widely used modified or revised scale). |
| global-local task | task | |
| Go/no-go task | task | A task in which stimuli are presented in a continuous stream and participants perform a binary decision on each stimulus. One of the outcomes requires participants to make a motor response (go), whereas the other requires participants to withhold a response (no-go)... |
| goal | concept | The desired end-point of behavior(s). |
| goal formation | concept | The processes that create and maintain representations of goal states. |
| goal maintenance | concept | The maintenance of information regarding task goals in working memory. |
| goal management | concept | consists of the process of recognizing or inferring goals, abandoning no longer relevant goals, identifying and resolving conflicts among goals, and prioritizing goals consistently for optimal success. |
| goal state | concept | A point reached when goal directed behavior has successfully concluded. |
| grammatical encoding | concept | the selection of semantically appropriate lexical items and the generation of a syntactic frame or surface form. |
| grapheme | concept | a unit (as a letter or digraph) of a writing system; the set of units of a writing system (as letters and letter combinations) that represent a phoneme. |
| graphemic buffer | concept | a component dedicated to the temporary storage of abstract orthographic representations prior to their format-specific expression in spelling and/or reading. |
| Grasping Task | task | Subjects grasped or gripped a presented stimulus with their hand or mimicked grasping one that was not physically presented (i.e., was imaginary or presented as a picture or video). |
| Gray Oral Reading Test - 4 | task | measures growth in oral reading and aids in the diagnosis of oral reading difficulties. Five scores provide information on oral reading skills in terms of: Rate, accuracy, fluency, comprehension, overall reading ability, and comprehension... |
| grief | concept | deep and poignant distress caused by or as if by bereavement. |
| gustation | concept | Form of chemoreception that facilitates taste perception. |
| gustatory learning | concept | The formation of a knowledge representation that contains information about gustatory percepts. |
| gustatory memory | concept | the cognitive capacity of storing and retrieving information related to taste. |
| gustatory perception | concept | The processes involved with representing gustatory sensations as such. |