Category: G

A physician who has a general or family practice, medical specialist. A practicing physician who does not specialize in any particular field of medicine (e.g. is not a specialist). Should be contrasted with a family physician who has specialized (not all do), and is subject to specialty hoard examination, in the care of families, and…

In education,  broad, abstract statements expressing educational goals for several years serve as guidelines for the more specific objectives of a given course of study.  

A person’s abstracted concept of other people.  

The curve that shows the relationship between the tendency to respond to a new stimulus and its similarity to the original conditioned stimulus.  

The ability to flexibly inhibit responses in a variety of circumstances assumed to emerge as part of the five to seven transition.  

The extent or to go beyond.  

The loss of response strength that occurs when a response is elicited by a stimulus other than the original stimulus, generalization.  

The automatic transfer of a response conditioned to a particular stimulus to all similar stimuli. The ability to apply a skill or strategy to a task in an environment that differs from the one in which the task was learned.  

In research, the extent to which the results of a study with a particular sample represents the population from which the sample was taken.  

In research, the ability to generalize to subjects, situations, treatments, measures, study designs, and procedures other than those used in a given study.