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EARLY-SELECTION THEORY

A theory about attention saying that a filter blocks out unattended messages early in the strem of processing before a

ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY

The graphical record of the beating of various chambers of the heart.

ECOFEMINISM

Combining feminism with a commitment to the environment emphasising exploitation of the environment as well as women.

ECSTASY

The state of intense pleasure and elation that can be evident in cases of mania.

EDUCATION

1. Process of teaching or gaining knowledge, skills and values. 2. Field of advanced taecher preparation study.

EDUCATIONAL TESTING SERVICE (ETS)

The non-profit organisation that helps to advance the quality and equity in education.

EFFERENT NEURON

Any neuron carrying impulses away from the central nervous system.

EGO BOUNDARY

1. Concept that we can distuiguish between self and not self. 2. The boundary between ego and the id or

EGO STATE

Psychoanalytical theory. The integrated state of mind determining our relationship to other people and the environment.

EGOISM

Personality that is marked by selfishness and disregard for others. See egotism.

EJACULATIO RETARDATA

Delay in ejaculation during sexual intercourse due to psychogenic factors. Also called male continence.

ELECTIVE

A course of education chosen from alternatives not needed for the program studied but are optional.

ELECTRODE

The instrument with a positive and negative pole used to stimulate tissues or record the elecyrical activity. Also called a

ELECTROPHYSIOLOGIC AUDIOMETRY

Class of procedures for measuring auditory function using electrical responses.

ELEVATED MOOD

Heightened mood of euphoria, well-being and elation.

E-MAIL

The electronic version of a letter with instant delivery.

EMBRYO TRANSFER

Transferring an embryo from one woman to another or back into the same woman after fertilisation.

EMETIC THERAPY

Drugs that produce aversive states when combined with problem behaviours and stimuli. See aversion therapy.

EMOTIONAL DETERIORATION

Emotional state of carelessness towards ourselves and othwr people.

EMOTIONAL INTELLIGENCE QUOTIENT

The index for emotional intelligence.