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