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EQUIPMENT AUTOMATION

The degree that equipment can function without a person's input.

ERGOGRAM

Output from an ergograph showing the physical work done by muscles.

ERIKSEN FLANKERS TASK

A task where stimuli are assigned one of two responses and the particpant needs to respond to the target stimulus

EROTIZATION

Making any activty or part of the body erotic not usually though to be.

ERROR SCORE

Classical test theory. The diference between the expected score and the actual score.

ESP FREE-RESPONSE TEST

Parapsychology experiments where the gueses are not restricted to a set of determined responses. Compare ESP forced choice test.

ESTIMABLE FUNCTION

The function that the parameters of a model can be estimated from the data.

ETHEREAL

A odourant in the 7 classes of odourants in sterochemical smell theory.

ETHNOGRAPHY

Describing the study of cultures based on direct observation. Compare ethnology. See etnography.

EUERGASIA

The normal mental and psychobiological functioning

EUSTHENIC

A body type similar to aesthenic and close to athletic type in the Kretschmer Typology.

EVASION

1. Paralogia where an idea that is next logically is replaced by another closely related idea. 2. The elusion or

EVOLUTIONARILY STABLE STRATEGY (ESS)

The equilibrium between 2 different adaptive strategies allowing both strategies to be maintained within the population.

EXCITABILITY

1. The way some people are aroused to emotional responses. 2. property of a neuron reacting to stimulation. See action

EXCULPATORY EVIDENCE

This is evidence supporting innocence.

EXERCISE PLAY

Play that involves gross locomotor movements such as running.

EX

1. A sense of apprehension associated with the feeling that life is meaningless and futile. 2. Feeling of fear and

EXORCISM

The practice of expelling evil spirits from a person. See inhabitance.

EXPECTATION-STATES THEORY

An explanation for status differentiation in groups that proposes members allocate status to those who are capable but also to

EXPERIMENTAL EPILEPSY

Causing an epileptic attack in animal.