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Gender Identity Gender identity is one’s own perception or sense of being male or female. Please do not confuse this with sexual …

Gender Definitions of masculinity and femininity that are determined by one’s culture. Therefore, the definitions of male and female can change across …

Gate-Control Theory The Gate-Control Theory of pain perception was developed by Melzack and Wall’s who indicated that the spinal cord contains a …

Gamblers Fallacy A gambler’s fallacy is a heuristic in which a person thinks the probability of an outcome has changed, when in …

G. Stanley Hall G. Stanley Hall (1844 – 1924) is known as the Father of Adolescence. His work influenced adolescent themes in …

Fundamental Attribution Error Imagine this situation, you are at school and someone you know comes by, you say hello, and this person …

Functionalism Functionalism was the psychological school of thought that followed Structuralism and moved away from focusing on the structure of the mind …

Functional Fixedness People are often very limited in the ways they think about objects, concepts, and people. When something is thought of …

Fugue Fugue (also known as Dissociative Fugue) is a really interesting type of disorder in which a person suffers a bout of …

Frustration-Aggression Theory First, we need to explain frustration (not that we don’t all already know what this is). Frustration is a feeling …