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.
EXCITATORY CONDITIONING
Pavlovian conditioning. Conditioning where a conditioned stimulus acts as a signal that an unconditioned stimulus will follow.
EXECUTIVE DYSFUNCTION
An impairment in our ability to think in the abstract and to plan, initiate, monitor and to stop complx behaviour.…
EXHIBITIONISM
1. The tendency to draw to attention to yourself. See attention getting. 2. A paraphilia where you expose your genitals…
EXIT INTERVIEW
1. Meeting of a student with the school counsellor before leaving for the next step in education. 2. Employee's last…
EXPERIENCER
Used in case grammar, it is the thing that experiences the effect of the action, state or process described in…
EXPERIMENTAL PHILOSOPHY
1. Name for the discipline of experimental science used in philosophy in the 17th and 18th centuries. 2. 20th century…
EXPERIMENTER MODELING EFFECT
A systematic error where participants in research act closely to the way the experimenter would respond.
EXPRESSION
The communication of a emotion, thought or behaviour. See emotional expression- facial expression.