EMOTION-FOCUSED COUPLES THERAPY
Form of couples therapy based on problems in relationship are often due to thwarted fulfillment of emotional needs.
EMPIRICAL-CRITERION KEYING
Method to select questions for personality inventories where the items are chosen and weighted according to social criterion.
ENCEPHALITIS LETHARGICA
Epidemic form of encephalitis observe globally from 1915 to 1926. also called Economo's disease.
END OF LIFE
The period when a person is faced with death and needs to deals with decsions of care before death, funeral…
ENDOGENOUS DEPRESSION
Depression occuring in the absence of a psychological stressor where a biological or genetic cause is implied. Compare reactive depression.
ENGINEERING PSYCHOLOGY
A field that identifies the psychological principles governing human interaction in the environment, systems, and products and applying them to…
ENTITLEMENT
1. The rights or benefits put on a person or group. 2. An unreasonable claim to a special consideration in…
ENVIRONMENTAL APPROACH
The approach to reduce external pressures that can cause emotional difficulties.
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…