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EMERGENCY CALL SYSTEM

A portable device used by a person to summon help.

EMOTION

The complex reaction pattern that involves experiential, behavioural and physiological elements.

EMOTIONAL DIVORCE

The marital relationship where both partners live separate lives with no interactions.

EMOTIONAL RESPONSE

The emotional reaction to a stimulus.

EMPIRICAL KNOWLEDGE

1. Philosophy. Knowledge gained from experience. 2. Sciences. Knowledge gained from experiment and observation. See empiricism.

EMPLOYMENT COUNSELING

Counselling that is designed to help a person with work related issues.

ENACTIVE REPRESENTATION

Representing objects and events through action and movement. See enactive mode.

ENCOPRESIS

The repeated and involuntary defecation occurring after age 4 not due to a general mental condition. Compare fecal incontinence.

ENDOCRINE

Relating to chemical signalling where a chemical messenger is released by a cell and carried to a target cell where

ENDOPLASM

The less dense cytoplasm filling the bulk of the cell. Compare ectoplasm.

ENERGIZING

The mental skill of revitalising us when we feel fatigued.

ENRICHMENT

Enhancing, improving or augmenting a desirable quality or component.

ENUCLEATION

1. removing a whole organic structure such as a tumour. 2. Removing the nucleus of a cell.

ENVIRONMENTAL EDUCATION

Developing principles to raise people's awarweness of the environment. See environmental attitudes- social trap.

ENZYME

Protien acting as a biological catalyst to speed up a chemical reaction.

EPIDEMIOLOGIC CATCHMENT AREA SURVEY (ECA SURVEY)

A telephone survey of mental disorders carried out in 1980 to 1985 in the US to get information about prevalence

EPILEPTOID PERSONALITY

Personality pattern including irritability, selfishness, aggressiveness and being uncooperative.

EPITHALAMUS

Located behind the thalamus.

EQUILIBRIUM-POINT MODEL

A model for limb control where the target of movement is the equilibrium point between the agonist and antagonist muscle

ERGATIVE

A verb used with a transitively or intransitively with the same noun to describe the same action.