ERROR OF ANTICIPATION
In methods of limits. The error where the participant wrongly changes her response of target present to target absent based…
ESCAPE FROM FREEDOM
False solution to a person's problem of loneliness and isolation where they seek refuge in social conformity. See identity need.
EVALUATION OF TRAINING
Reviewing personnel training programs to gauge their effectiveness. Also called training evaluation.
EVERYDAY RACISM
Giving differential treatment to people based on racial groups occuring in common situations.
EXCITATORY POSTSYNAPTIC POTENTIAL (EPSP)
A depolarising potential in a post synaptic neuron caused by exciatory presynaptic impulses. Compare inhibitory post synaptic potential.
EXISTENCE, RELATEDNESS, AND GROWTH THEORY (ERG THEORY)
Variation of Maslow's motivational hierarchy that is applied in industrial and organisational psychology.
EX-PATIENT CLUB
Psychiatry. Where an group is organised for ongoing care by former mental patients as part of an aftrcare program. See…
EXPERIMENTAL REALISM
The extent that an experimental situation is realistic. See mundane realism.
EXPERIMENTER PSYCHOSOCIAL EFFECT
The unintended effect on a person's rsponses associated with individual differences of psychological and social characteristics of the experimenters.
EXPLICIT PROCESS
1. Cognitive effect that can be accurately derived. 2. Occasional synonym for conscious process. Compare implicit process.
EXPRESSIVE APHASIA
Aphasia that leaves a person unable to speak, write and gesture properly. Also called cortical motor aphasia- expressive asphasia- speech…