Glossary G

Gyp also spelled Gip means a fraud or swindle; one who defrauds; a swindler. Gyp also means to deprive another of something by fraud; cheat or swindle.

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Gyri (singular, gyrus) refer to the ridges of the cortex between sulci.

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Gyrus (plural gyri) refers to the protuberance or elevation of the brain, separated from another Gyrus by a sulcus

Spearman's g is the term introduced by Charles Spearman to describe his concept of a general intelligence. It is Spearman’s abbreviation for Neogenesis, which means one’s ability to understand relations or general mental ability. In Psychometric theory, it is the idea that intelligence can be expressed in terms of a single factor, general intelligence or g, first formulated by Spearman in the early 1900s.

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