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ENTRAINMENT

The process that activates or provides a timing cue for a biological rhythm.

ENVIRONMENTAL DESIGN

Creative planning of living and working areas to enhance habitability.

ENVIRONMENTAL THERAPY

Therapy addressing and including a person's surroundings to promote better cognitive, affective and behavioural health. See milieu therapy- therapeutic community.

EPIDEMIC CATALEPSY

Catalepsy occuring simultaneously in a number of individuals.

EPILEPTOGENIC LESION

Brain damage that results that in epilepsy.

EPISTEMOLOGY

Branch of philiosophy concerning the nature, origin and limitations of knowledge and justification of truth claims.

EQUILIBRIUM

The state of mental or physical balance or stability. See homeostasis.

ERETHISM

A high degree of sensitivity to any sensory stimulation to some are all parts of the body. See mad hatter's

ERGOTROPIC

Relating to or concerning a capacity for expenditure of energy.

EROTIC PLASTICITY

The degree that sexual desire is shaped by social , cultural ans situational factors. See behavioural plasticity.

ERROR OF MEASUREMENT

The deviation or departure from the true value.

ESCAPISM

The tendency a person has to escape from the real world to one of delight or security.

ESTEEM NEEDS

Part of Maslow's motivational hierarchy. His 4th level where we strive for a sense of personal value.

ETHANOL

Substance formed naturally and synthetically by the fermentation of glucose.

ETHNIC IDENTITY

A person's sense of being defined by membership of an ethnic group.

ETS 1

1. Abbreviation for educational testing service. 2. Abbreviation for electrical transcranial stimulation.

EUROPEAN FEDERATION OF THE PSYCHOLOGY OF SPORT AND PHYSICAL ACTIVITY

The European federation of national organisations dealing with sport and exercise psychology.

EVALUATIVE REASONING

Critical thinking involving appraisal of the effectiveness, validity, meaning and relevance of an act, idea, technique or object.

EVOKED POTENTIAL (EP)

The electrical activity seen in part of the nervous system in response to stimulation. Also called evoked response.

EXALTATION

The extreme state of euphoria and agitation with a lack of restraint.