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ENTHUSIASM

The feeling of excitement for an activity.

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The analysis of environmental features of beauty, scenic quality, and visual preference.

ENVIRONMENTAL LOAD THEORY

The theory that humans have a limited ability to handle environmental stimuli.

EPENA

Hallucinogenic snuff made from the bark of South American trees of the Virola genus. The active ingredient is similar to

EPIGENESIS

1. 1. Theory that the features of an organism arise from interaction between genetic and environmental influences. See nature-nurture controversy.

EPIPHENOMENON

A byproduct of a process with no effect on the process itself. See epiphphenoimonalism.

EPSILON MOVEMENT

The perception of motion occuring when a white line on a black background is changed to a black line on

EQUIPOTENTIALITY IN MEMORY

The theory that memory is contributed to by many parts of the brain and not just one area. See law

ERGOMETRY

Measure of physical work performed by muscles.

ERISA

Acronym for Employee retirement income security act.

EROTOGRAPHOMANIA

The obsession with erotic writing that is accompanied by a compulsion to write about seual matters.

ERYTHROPOIETIN

Protein produced by the kidneys and liver stimulating production of red cells in the bone marrow.

ESSENCE

Philosophy. The presumed reality at a things core that makes it what it is and not something else.

ESTIMATORS

The mental process used to judge quantity. Compare operators.

ETHICAL IMPERATIVE

By taking the ethically required stand or accepted. Defined by Immanuel Kant.

ETHNOMETHODOLOGY

Analysing the underlying conventions and systems of meaning that people use to make sense of common interactions.

EUMORPHIC

A constitutional body type featuring a normal shape and structure and equivalent to the normosplanchnic type.

EUTHYMIA

1. Mood of well being. 2. A phase in biploar disorder with neither manic nor depressive moods with a close

EVENT SAMPLING

Sampling where the frame of sampling consists of events and behaviours such as going to a party or having disorder

EVOLUTIONARY DEVELOPMENTAL PSYCHOLOGY

Application of Darwinian evolution of natural selection to explain contemporary human development.