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EXPERIMENTER

The party devising the experiment.

EXPIATION

The atonement for wrongdoing representing acknowledgement and relieves and reduces feelings of guilt.

EXPLOSIVE PERSONALITY

A personality with frequent outbursts of uncontrolled anger and hostility. See intermittent explosive disorder.

EXTENDED-STAY REVIEW

The review of a hospital stay that exceeds what was thought to be sufficient. See continued-stay review.

EXTERNAL STIGMATA

Any peculiarities or physical marks used to aid condition identification.

EAHCA

Abbreviation for Education for all handicapped children act.

EBBINGHAUS, HERMANN

German psychologist 1850-1909. Famous for memory experiments and seeing how people forget.

ECLECTIC BEHAVIORISM

The approach to behavioural therapy not adhering to one theoretical model but applying a range of techniques.

ECONOMY

1. the system and rules that manges something. 2. Management of resources to maximise efficiency or returns and to avoid

ECTOTHERM

An animal whose body temperature is regulated by the environment. Compare endotherm.

EDUCATIONAL PACING

1. the rate of learning. 2. Controlling and monitoring the speed a student is working at.

EFFECTIVENESS EVALUATION

Assesment of the degree of success in achieving a goal.

EFFORT SYNDROME

Former name for anxiety reaction calssified now as panic disorder.

EGO INSTINCTS

Psychoanalytical theory. An instinct such as hunger that is directed towards self-preservation.

EGOCENTRIC SPEECH

Speech not directed at others or where there is no attempt to change thoughts or to take into account another

EIDETIC IMAGE

A mental image of a visual scene kept for a period of time after an event

ELAVIL

Trade name for amitriptyline.

ELECTRICAL STIMULATION OF THE CORTEX

Using electrodes implanted in brain cells to produce a desired effect.

ELECTRONARCOSIS

A type of electrotherapy with alarge amount of electric shock is used to generate athe tonic phase of a seizure

ELECTROTONIC CONDUCTION

The passive and decrease of a chage along a nerve or muscle pathway.