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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.

EXHAUSTIVE SEARCH

A search where every possible item is looked after while trying to find something.

EXISTENTIALISM

A philosophical and literary movement coming out of europe between the World Wars and was dominant through the 1940's and

EXPANSIVE DELUSION

The less common name for delusion of grandeur.

EXPERIENCE-EXPECTANT PROCESS

The process that forms synapses when an organism has a species tytpical experience. Also called experience expectant synaptogenesis.

EXPERIMENTAL NEUROSIS

The disordered emotional or behavioural state and high anxiety levels seen in animals in experiments.

EXPERIMENTER INTERPRETER EFFECT

The error resulting from the bias of the researcher interpreting the results.

EXPLICIT ATTITUDE MEASURE

An attitude measure where a person is aware of having their atitude towards an object assessed. Compare implicit attitude measure-

EXPRESSED EMOTION (EE)

Negative emotions that are expressed by family members to the person with a mental or emotional disorder.

EXTENSOR RIGIDITY

The rigid contractions of extensor muscles. See decerabrate rigidity.

EXTERNALIZERS

A person who believes their behaviour and reactions are determined by external events beyond their control.

EARLY TRANSIENT INCAPACITATION (ET1)

Any incapacitation that occurs as a result of exposure to radiation.

ECHO PHENOMENON

Exhibiting echolalia or echopraxia or a combination of them.

ECOCHG

An abbreviation for electro-cochleography. See electro physio logic audiometry.

ECPHORY

When a past event is remembered with a trigger.

EDUCABLE MENTALLY RETARDED (EMR)

Was once used to describe a person with a mild or moderate to high mental retardation who could learn to

EDUCATIONAL SPORT PSYCHOLOGIST

The person trained in human movement as it relates to sport and non clinical psychology.

EFFERENT NERVE FIBER

A nerve carrying impulses to the periphery. Compare afferent nerve fibre.

EGO ANXIETY

Anxiety caused by conflicting demands of the ego and id. Compare id anxiety. See signal anxiety.