EMBODIMENT
A claim saying that human thinking is the metaphorical extension of a body experience.
EMERGENT LEADER
The person who naturally becomes the leader of the group. See leadership emergence.
EMOTIONAL INSIGHT 1
1. Awareness of your own emotional reactions and those of others. 2. Psychotherapy. The client's awareness of emotional forces underlying…
EMOTION-FOCUSED COUPLES THERAPY
Form of couples therapy based on problems in relationship are often due to thwarted fulfillment of emotional needs.
EMPIRICAL-CRITERION KEYING
Method to select questions for personality inventories where the items are chosen and weighted according to social criterion.
ENCEPHALITIS LETHARGICA
Epidemic form of encephalitis observe globally from 1915 to 1926. also called Economo's disease.
END OF LIFE
The period when a person is faced with death and needs to deals with decsions of care before death, funeral…
ENDOGENOUS DEPRESSION
Depression occuring in the absence of a psychological stressor where a biological or genetic cause is implied. Compare reactive depression.
ENGINEERING PSYCHOLOGY
A field that identifies the psychological principles governing human interaction in the environment, systems, and products and applying them to…
ENTITLEMENT
1. The rights or benefits put on a person or group. 2. An unreasonable claim to a special consideration in…
ENVIRONMENTAL ASSESSMENT
Evaluating the situational and environmental variables that influence beahviour based on disordered functioning is rooted in the social system.
ENVIRONMENTAL PRESS
A situation in the environment arousing a need , mainly for adaptation.
EQUAL LOUDNESS CONTOUR
A function relating to decibel sound pressure level to the frequency of pure tones with a loudness value of a…
EQUIVALENCE CLASS
A stimulus group that exhibits reflexivity, symmetry and transitivity in the context of conditional discriminations.