EVOLUTIONARY PSYCHOLOGY
Approach to psychology where human cognition and behaviour have adapted from physical and social environments.
EXCITATION-TRANSFER THEORY
Aggressive rsponses are intensified by arousal from other stimuli not directly related to the original stimulus that started the aggression.
EXECUTIVE CONTROL STRUCTURES
The mental structures used in problem solving that represent the problem situation, task objectives and strategies for solving the problem.
EXHAUSTION DELIRIUM
The delirious state occuring from extreme fatigue and prolonged stress. See delirium.
EXISTENTIAL-HUMANISTIC THERAPY
Psychotherapy dealing the whole person and not just behaviour and underlying motivations. Also called humanistic existential therapy.
EXPANDED CONSCIOUSNESS
A sensory effect possible from meditation or mind altering drugs where a person feels like his mind has been opened…
EXPERIENCE-DEPENDENT PROCESS
The process where a synapse is formed and maintained as a result of an experience. Also called experience dependent synaptogenesis.
EXPERIMENTER EXPECTANCY EFFECT
Where the experimenter expects certain results and causes errors in research.
EXPOSURE THERAPY
Used to treat anxiety disorders by confronting the stimulus causing anxiety.
EXTENSOR MUSCLE
The muscle that when it contracts extends part of the body. Compare flexor model.
EXTERNALIZATION
1. defense mechanism where our thoughts and feelings are attributed to the external world. 2. Process of learning to distinguish…
EARLY INTERVENTION
The services provided on behalf of children who may be at risk of a developmental, behavioural or other condition from…
ECHO DES PENSEES
The auditory hallucination where a person hears his own thoughts repeated in spoken form. Also called thought echoing- echoencephalography.
ECOSYSTEMIC APPROACH
The approach to therapy emphasising the interaction between a person or family and the larger social context such a sschoolls,…
EDUCATIONAL QUOTIENT (EQ)
The ratio of educational age to chronological age as a percetage.