ENTITLEMENT PROGRAM
US government program providing financial assistance and welfare benefits to people meeting requirements.
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.
EROTIC ASPHYXIATION
Sexual pleasure associated with a restriction of breathing. See asphyxophilia- autoerotic sphyxiation.
ERP MEASURES OF INTELLIGENCE
Measures elicited by observing event related potentials in the brain to various stimuli. The level of intelligence correlates with the…
ESCALATION OF COMMITMENT
The continued committment and allocation of resources to a course of action that is failing in the hope of recouping…
ESSENTIAL TREMOR
A fine tremor, probably hereditary but not associated with a pathology of the nervous system. Also called benign hereditary tremor-…
ETHICS OF ANIMAL RESEARCH
Related to the ethics of using animals in experiments and holding then for research. See animal care and use- in…
ETHNOTHERAPY
Therapy that deals that cultural sensitivities of gthe client. Se multicultural counselling.
EVALUATION INTERVIEW
The interview where the employee is evaluated that can be a routine or periodic discussion of a worker's performance.
EVENT-RELATED-POTENTIAL MEASURE OF ATTITUDES (ERP MEASURE OF ATTITUDES)
Psychological measure of attitudes based on electrocortical activity.
EVOLUTIONARY THEORY
A theory accounting for evolution of organisms over successive generations.