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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.

EPHEDRA

A bush shrub used by Chinese herbalists that contains large amounts of ephedrine and pseudoephedrine.

EPILEPSY

A group of chronic brain disorders with disturbances in electrical dischagre of brain cells where a person suffers from rcurrent

EPISODIC AMNESIA

Loss of memory for certain significant events.

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.

ERGONOMIST

A person who studies or practices ergonomics.

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-

ESTROGEN

A class of steroid hormones produced mainly by the ovaries and are the main female sex hormones.

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.

EUPHENICS

Interventions used to improve outcomes of genetic disease by changing the environment.

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.