Glossary G

Glossary G

Global attribution refers to the belief that the cause of an event is due to factors that apply in a large number of situations, example, a person's intelligence, will influence his/her performance in many areas), as opposed to the belief that the cause is specific and applies in only a limited number of situations, example, a perons's musical ability, which will affect his/her performance in music courses but not in other courses.

Global empathy refers to a distress experienced and expressed as a result of witnessing someone else in distress.

Global image features refers to an information that may enable observers to rapidly perceive the gist of a scene. Features associated with specific types of scenes include degree of naturalness, degree of openness, degree of roughness, degree of expansion, and color.

Global objectives refer to very broad statements of intended learning that require years to accomplish.

Global optic flow refers to an information for movement that occurs when all elements in a scene move. The perception of global optic flow indicates that it is the observer that is moving and not the scene.

Global Positioning System or GPS refers to a satellite system used to locate any position on the map.

Global sexual dysfunction refers to a sexual dysfunction that occurs in every sexual situation.

Global structure/Macrostructure is defined as the global coherence relationships in discourse.