EVERYDAY RACISM
Giving differential treatment to people based on racial groups occuring in common situations.
EXCITATORY POSTSYNAPTIC POTENTIAL (EPSP)
A depolarising potential in a post synaptic neuron caused by exciatory presynaptic impulses. Compare inhibitory post synaptic potential.
EXOCATHECTION
The concentration of psychic energy on practical and worldly affairs instead of personal things. See cathexis.
EXPERIENTIAL FAMILY THERAPIST
Therapist using intuition, feelings and underlying processes to treat families.
EXPERIMENTAL PSYCHOLOGY
Studying behaviour, motive, cognition in a laboratory or experimental setting. See empirical pstchology.
EXPERIMENTER OBSERVER EFFECT
An error by the investigator in the perception or recording of data.
EXPLICIT PREJUDICE
The prejudice against a social group by a person that may or may not be expressed. Compare explicit prejudice.
EXPRESSIONISM FACTOR
Psychological aesthetics. Components of artistic style emphasising the artrist's emotional experience.
EXTERIORIZATION
1. Act of relating your inner feelings and attitudes to external reality. 2. Outward expression of personal ideas.
EASTERBROOK HYPOTHESIS
Where the range of cues attended to is inversely related to the degree of arousal.
ECHOENCEPHALOGRAM ECHOGRAPHIA
Pathological writing where the person doesn't the words and phrases they are copying.
ECOLOGICAL NICHE
1.The position or function of an organism or a population within a biological and physical environment. 2. The area within…
ECSTATIC TRANCE
Trance like state of joy or happiness associated with religous practices. See altered state of consciousness- mysticism- voodoo.
EDUCATION FOR ALL HANDICAPPED CHILDREN ACT (EAHCA EHA)
An act passed by US congress that guaranteed all childre access to education regardless of their disablities.
EDUCATIONAL THERAPY
Treatment interventions for people with learning disabilities, emotional or behavioural problems that interfere with learning.