EVERSION THEORY OF AGING
Where aging arises from functional deterioration of body tissues due to collagen changes.
EVOLVED MECHANISM
A subsystem of the brain that results from natural selection and solves a problem relating to survival or reproduction of…
EXCITATORY FIELD
The area of the brain around and sharing the response of an excited sensory area.
EXECUTIVE FUNCTION
High level cognitive processes that organise and order behaviour. Also called central processes- executive functioning- high order processes.
EXHIBITIONISM
1. The tendency to draw to attention to yourself. See attention getting. 2. A paraphilia where you expose your genitals…
EXIT INTERVIEW
1. Meeting of a student with the school counsellor before leaving for the next step in education. 2. Employee's last…
EXPERIENCER
Used in case grammar, it is the thing that experiences the effect of the action, state or process described in…
EXPERIMENTAL PHILOSOPHY
1. Name for the discipline of experimental science used in philosophy in the 17th and 18th centuries. 2. 20th century…
EXPERIMENTER MODELING EFFECT
A systematic error where participants in research act closely to the way the experimenter would respond.
EXPRESSION
The communication of a emotion, thought or behaviour. See emotional expression- facial expression.
EXTENSOR THRUST
Leg reflex caused by stimulation to the sole of the foot. See also stretch reflex.
EXTERNALIZING-INTERNALIZING I
Classification of children's behaviour and disorders based on reactions to stressors. See externalisation- internalisation.
EARLY TRANSIENT INCAPACITATION (ET1)
Any incapacitation that occurs as a result of exposure to radiation.