Glossary G
Glossary G
Galatea effect it is when high self -expectations result in higher levels of performance.
- Galen (A.D. 129–201) : Galen refers to a Roman anatomist and physician who identified many of the major brain structures and described behavioral changes as a function of brain trauma. He associated each of Hippocrates ' four (4) humors with a temperament, thus creating a rudimentary theory of personality. Galen is the physician of the Emperor Marcus Aurelius in Rome and lived from 129 to 216. he is one of the most influential of the Greek physicians and he published a wide body of work that shaped Western biomedicine.
- Galileo (1564-1642) : Galileo is one of the famous scientist who showed several of Aristotle's "truths" to be false and, by using a Telescope, extended the known number of bodies in the solar system to 11. Galileo argued that science could deal only with objective reality and that because human perceptions were subjective, they were outside the realm of science.
Gambler’s fallacy is defined as an erroneous belief that a random process, for example, a coin flip or a spin of a roulette wheel, will automatically keep track of the outcomes in order to make the overall rate of an outcome in the short run equal to the overall rate of that outcome in the long run. Gambler’s fallacy is the tendency to believe that a particular chance event is affected by previous events and that chance events will "even out" in the short run; the tendency to believe that random events are self -correcting.