Glossary G
Glossary G
Genuine Interest refers to the attitude of true, authentic interest for the other.
Genuineness is defined as the willingness to be authentic, real, open, and periodically self-disclosing within the helping relationship. One of the eight (8) critical attitudes. Similar to Congruence, Genuineness in the therapist refers to being one’s actual self with the client, not phony or affected.
Geocentric theory refers to the theory proposed by Ptolemy that the sun and planets rotate around the earth.
Geographical environment is defined as the physical reality according to Koffka.
Geons (geometric icons) refer to the volumetric features of Biederman"s recognition-by-components Theory of object perception. Examples of Geons are blocks, cylinders, spheres, arcs, and wed
- Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel (1770-1831) : Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel believed the universe to be an interrelated unity, like Spinoza. Hegel called this unity the "Absolute", and he thought that human history and the human intellect progress via the dialectic process toward the Absolute.
Please see also The Absolute
George Berkeley (1685-1753) one of the earliest theorists who said that the only thing humans experience directly is their own perceptions, or secondary qualities.