EXPRESSIVE APHASIA
Aphasia that leaves a person unable to speak, write and gesture properly. Also called cortical motor aphasia- expressive asphasia- speech…
EXTERNAL AUDITORY MEATUS
The canal conducting sound through the external ear to the tympanic membrane. Also called the auditory canal- ear canal.
EXTEROCEPTIVE STIMULUS
Stimulus coming from the external world. Compare interoceptive stimulus.
EASTERBROOK HYPOTHESIS
Where the range of cues attended to is inversely related to the degree of arousal.
ECHOENCEPHALOGRAM ECHOGRAPHIA
Pathological writing where the person doesn't the words and phrases they are copying.
ECOLOGICAL NICHE
1.The position or function of an organism or a population within a biological and physical environment. 2. The area within…
ECSTATIC TRANCE
Trance like state of joy or happiness associated with religous practices. See altered state of consciousness- mysticism- voodoo.
EDUCATION FOR ALL HANDICAPPED CHILDREN ACT (EAHCA EHA)
An act passed by US congress that guaranteed all childre access to education regardless of their disablities.
EDUCATIONAL THERAPY
Treatment interventions for people with learning disabilities, emotional or behavioural problems that interfere with learning.
EFFERENT PATHWAY
Neural pathway carrying impulses away from a region toward an effector. Compare afferent pathway.
EGO STRENGTH
Psychoanalytical theory.The ability of the ego to maintainthe effective balance between inner id impulses and outer reality.
EGOISTIC SUICIDE
An obselete concept dealing with suicide is an extreme sense of alienation.
EJACULATORY DUCT
The duct on either side of the prostrate gland that empties into the urtjta below the urinary bladder.
ELECTIVE AFFINITY
The feeling of sympathy, attraction or connection to another person or idea based on an idea by Goethe.
ELECTRODERMAL CHANGES
Skin changes that lter its electrical conductivity. See galvanic skin response- skin conductance.
ELECTROPLETHYSMOGRAPHY
Test for blood volume or changes in volume of organs and circulation.
ELEVATED PLUS MAZE
A piece of equipment used to test anxiety in lab rats and mice. It has open and closed arms and…
EMANCIPATED MINOR
A minor who supports himself and is not of legal age and claims the legal rights of an adult.