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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.

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

EXPANSIVE MOOD

The mood that reflects feelings of grandiosity.

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.

EXPLICIT MEMORY

Memoery that is consciously recalled. See declarative memory.

EXPRESSION

The communication of a emotion, thought or behaviour. See emotional expression- facial expression.