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EMPLOYEE COMPARISON TECHNIQUE

Evaluating employees using comparison to other employees.

ENACTION

The process of putting something in to action.

ENCODING

Converting sensory input into a form able to be processed and deposited in the memory.

ENDOCARDITIS

The inflammation of the inner lining of the heart.

ENDOPHASIA

The reproduction of spoken words in the mind. See covert speech.

ENEMA ADDICTION

Depending upon enemas to empty the bowel that reduce rectal sensitivity.

ENMESHED FAMILY

A family where memebers are involved in each others lives that limits or precludes healthy functioning and comprises individual autonomy.

ENTRAINMENT

The process that activates or provides a timing cue for a biological rhythm.

ENVIRONMENTAL DESIGN

Creative planning of living and working areas to enhance habitability.

ENVIRONMENTAL THERAPY

Therapy addressing and including a person's surroundings to promote better cognitive, affective and behavioural health. See milieu therapy- therapeutic community.

EPIDEMIC CATALEPSY

Catalepsy occuring simultaneously in a number of individuals.

EPILEPTOGENIC LESION

Brain damage that results that in epilepsy.

EPISTEMOLOGY

Branch of philiosophy concerning the nature, origin and limitations of knowledge and justification of truth claims.

EQUILIBRIUM

The state of mental or physical balance or stability. See homeostasis.

ERETHISM

A high degree of sensitivity to any sensory stimulation to some are all parts of the body. See mad hatter's

ERGOTROPIC

Relating to or concerning a capacity for expenditure of energy.

EROTIC PLASTICITY

The degree that sexual desire is shaped by social , cultural ans situational factors. See behavioural plasticity.

ERROR OF MEASUREMENT

The deviation or departure from the true value.

ESCAPISM

The tendency a person has to escape from the real world to one of delight or security.

ESTEEM NEEDS

Part of Maslow's motivational hierarchy. His 4th level where we strive for a sense of personal value.