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EVIRATION

1. Castration or emasculation. 2. A man's delusion he has been turned into a woman.

EXACT REPLICATION

Repeating an experiment where the goal is to have the conditions as close to the original conditions as possible.

EXCITATORY THRESHOLD

The intensity of a stimulus that will trigger a nerve impulse.

EXECUTIVE STRESS

Stress experienced by management personnel. See burnout- occupational stress- stress.

EXISTENTIAL ANALYSIS

Psychoanalysis emphasising conscious perception and experience over unconscious motivation and drive in the search for meaning.

EXOGAMY

The practice of marrying outside of the clan or social unit. Compare endogamy. See intermarriage- outbreeding.

EXPECTANCY

1. Behavioural psychology. The state where an organism anticipates an event based on previous experience. 2. Cognitive psychology. Mental set

EXPERIENTIAL KNOWLEDGE

The expertise and understanding we have from pour life experience.

EXPERIMENTAL RESEARCH

Any research based on random experiments to draw a causal inference.

EXPERT FALLACY

A paradoxical finding that experts are poor reporters of their own skills.

EXPLOITATIVE ORIENTATION

A character pattern marked by using stealth, deceit, power or violence. Also called exploitive character. Compare hoarding orientation- marketing orientation.

EXPRESSIVE LANGUAGE

Language produced by a speaker or writer. Also called productive language.

EXTERNAL BOUNDARY

Boundary between the ego and external reality that is different from the internal boundary between the ego and id. Also

EXTEROCEPTOR

A sensory nerve ending receiving stimulation from outside the body. Compare interoceptor.

EATING AID

Technology allowing people with disabilities to eat independently.

ECHOLALIA

The mechanical repitition of words and phrases spoken by another person.

ECOLOGICAL PERSPECTIVE

Community psychology. Where a social entity is viewed in terms of the relationship between people, roles, orgaisations, events, resources and

ECT-INDUCED AMNESIA

Amnesia brought on by ECT. Memory can be severly compromised.

EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT LEVEL

1. Status of learning gained by a student. 2. The set of standards a student must acquire to pass to

EDWARDS PERSONAL PREFERENCE SCHEDULE (EPPS)

An inventory for college students where the manifest needs are assessed on a forced-choice basis.