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EMPLOYMENT INTERVIEW

The interview of a job applicant to determine suitability for the job.

ENANTIODROMIA

1. A concept of Heraclitus that all things eventually turn in to or are replaced by their opposite. 2. Carl…

ENCOUNTER GROUP

A group of people who come together for personal groth and insight into their conditions.

ENDOCRINE SYSTEM

The set of endocrine glands that produce hormones.

ENDOPSYCHIC

Pertaining to the unconscious mind or intrpsychic processes. Compare exopsychic.

ENERVATE

1. To deprive of energy. 2. Surgically remove a nerve part.

ENTELECHY

Philosophy and metaphysics. The realisation as opposed to potential.

ENURESIS

The repeated and involuntary urination.

ENVIRONMENTAL FIELD

Gestalt psychology. The context in which an event occurs and its components interact.

ENZYME INHIBITION

Ability of drugs to impair enzyme action, mainly in the liver, to metabolise drugs or other substances.

EPIDERMIS

1. Outer, protective non vascular layer of the skin of vertebrates.2. Outer layers of cells of some invertebrates. 3. Outermost…

EPINEPHRINE

A catecholamine neurotransmitter and adrenal hormone that is the end product of metabolising tyrosine. Also called adrenaline.

EPITHELIUM

The layer of cells covering the outer surface of the body and lining body cavities.

EQUIPMENT AUTOMATION

The degree that equipment can function without a person's input.

ERGOGRAM

Output from an ergograph showing the physical work done by muscles.

ERIKSEN FLANKERS TASK

A task where stimuli are assigned one of two responses and the particpant needs to respond to the target stimulus…

EROTIZATION

Making any activty or part of the body erotic not usually though to be.

ERROR SCORE

Classical test theory. The diference between the expected score and the actual score.

ESP FREE-RESPONSE TEST

Parapsychology experiments where the gueses are not restricted to a set of determined responses. Compare ESP forced choice test.

ESTIMABLE FUNCTION

The function that the parameters of a model can be estimated from the data.