EXPECTANCY EFFECT
The effect of a person's expectations about another person's behaviour on the behaviour of the person. See experimenter expectancy effect.
EXPERIENTIAL PSYCHOTHERAPY
A large group of therapies from the 1950's and 60's in existential humanistic psychology.
EXPERIMENTAL TREATMENT
1. Research. The conditions applied to some groups that may cause change in outcomes. 2. A treatment showing promise but…
EXPERT SYSTEM
A program using explicit representation of human knowledge. Also called knowledge based system.
EXPLORATORY DATA ANALYSIS
Data analysis that will generate new research. Compare confirmatory data analysis.
EXPRESSIVE THERAPY
1. Psychotherapy. Where a client talks through problems and feelings without restraint. Compare suppressive therapy. 2. Any therapy not using…
EXTERNAL CONTROL
The belief that one's experience and behaviour are determined by luck, circumstances, other people and external factors. Compare internal control.
EATING BEHAVIOR
Any behaviour in relation to eating that may be abnormal. See eating disorder.
ECOLOGICAL PSYCHOLOGY
The analysis of behaviour settings aiming to predict behaviour patterns that occur in certain settings. The focus is on the…
EFFICIENT CAUSE
A doctrine of Aristotlewhere the initiating agent of a causal process brings together the material cause, formal cause and the…
EGO SUFFERING
Psychoanalytical theory. Where feelings of guilt in the ego are produced by aggressive forces in the superego.
ELABORATED CODE
A linguistic register used in formal situations with a wide vocabulary and complex constructions.
ELECTRIC SENSE
The ability some species have to generate or sense electrical fields. See lampreys.